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Category: John Lubbock

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Violin, Like, Thing

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Beautiful, Looking, Heaven

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Mountain, Sea, Sky

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

advice, exhaustion, work, worry

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

actions, advice, ambition, inspirational, kingdom, progress, rule

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

advice, best, inspirational, motivational, peace, result

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

advice, choice, inspirational, personality, time, truth, wanting, will