The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

Quote by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Happiness Quotes

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who...

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after...

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after...

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This...

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This...

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become...

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become...

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes...

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes...

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

Life is like an onion; you peel one layer off at a time and sometimes...

Life is like an onion; you peel one layer off at a time and sometimes...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same....

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same....