Quote by Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

Other quotes by Iris Murdoch

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. – Doug Larson

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

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You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if youre not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts

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Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when youre a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately its gone. – Andrea Corr

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