Quote by Holbrook Jackson
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack i

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. – Holbrook Jackson

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. – Anthony Trollope

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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good days work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. – Henri Matisse

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But happiness is no respecter of persons. – Stephen Fry

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