For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Topics: Happiness Quotes

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat...

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -...

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -...

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between...

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more...

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have...

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a...

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting,...

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting,...

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles...

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles...

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be...

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be...

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is...

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is...

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.