Ernest Hemingway on happiness
Ernest Hemingway99 quotes“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
Filed under
More from Ernest Hemingway
We wait always for something that does not come.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway You never understand anybody that loves you.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway The best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway No one ever stopped when they were winning.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
Original quotes
From our community writers
Our only limitation is that we only believe what is visible to our eyes and audible to our ears.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel Some days, you will be close to the finish line and still not make it.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell HooksBell Hooks I separated someplace for each person in my heart, But she claimed to be the owner of it.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Modern-day love stories are born not out of love, but a tired mind and a restless heart.
Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg I can’t wait to collect memories from every corner of the earth to splash in the vastness of this beautiful world.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry
Meet the writers
More on happiness
I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
Jimmy PageJimmy Page Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
NovalisNovalis They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
Zelda FitzgeraldZelda Fitzgerald Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
Guy RitchieGuy Ritchie Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
Zelda FitzgeraldZelda Fitzgerald Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.
Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan