Happiness
Break Your Ties
I wonder what inspires a man to complain of “having nothing to do.” I am happiest when I have nothing to distract me and I am completely alone.
The Pursuit of Happiness
'What is so wrong with America,' he repeated, as if it was the title of a lecture. As indeed it was.
I Never Had It So Good
‘To tell the truth, I never had it so good,’ he wrote. ‘But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.’ That was hardly a joke. When a man’s breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown – he is free, he is light.
I Would Be Happy in that Place I Happen Not to Be
This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by a desire to change beds. One would prefer to suffer by the stove. Another believes he would recover if he sat by the window.
Happiness is Never Grand
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability.
The Thoughts of Mrs Ramsay
Always, Mrs Ramsay felt, one helped oneself out of solitude reluctantly by laying hold of some little odd or end, some sound, some sight.