Quote by Bernard Cornwell
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. – Bernard Cornwell

Other quotes by Bernard Cornwell

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. – Bernard Cornwell

Category:
Travel
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get youve got to make yourself. – Alice Walker

Category:
Happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

Category:
Happiness

Theres a higher form of happiness in commitment. Im counting on it. – Claire Forlani

Category:
Happiness

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Im all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and thats just how it goes. – Kid Rock

Category:
Change

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. – Marilyn Ferguson

Category:
Change

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. – Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893

Category:
Future

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and its hard to find a new way to tell that story. – Rashida Jones

Category:
Romantic