Percy Bysshe Shelley on happiness
Percy Bysshe Shelley87 quotes“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Love’s very pain is sweet.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HerodotusHerodotus I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player’s game and make it my own, I would be very happy.
NeymarNeymar They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl NightingaleEarl Nightingale The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can’t completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
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