Logo
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highes

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton, 1955

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Happiness

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Happiness

Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. – Dag Hammarskjold

Category:
Happiness

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so its important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are. – Dee Dee Myers

Category:
Women

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

Category:
Christianity

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didnt want anyone to know who I was. – Robert Smith

Category:
famous

Ones nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the worlds family. – Paul Harris

Category:
Family