Quote by Hugh Laurie
I admit I cant shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, t

I admit I cant shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. – Hugh Laurie

Other quotes by Hugh Laurie

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. – Hugh Laurie

Category:
Hope
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I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. – Hugh Laurie

Category:
History
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Some people are drawn naturally – there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. – Hugh Laurie

Category:
Travel
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. – Helen Keller

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Happiness

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. – Walter Savage Landor

Category:
Happiness

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. – Lydia M. Child

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Happiness

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. – Andre Gide

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Happiness

Random Quotes

For time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

Category:
Time

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

Category:
great

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. – Charles Kettering

Category:
work

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain

Category:
Eating