HAPPINESS
313. What sky! What light! Ah in spite of all it is a blessed thing to be alive in such weather, and out of hospital.
Samuel Beckett LITERATURE, 1969
314. You must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
Andre Gide LITERATURE, 1947
315. The man who for the first time picks a small flower so that he can have it near him while he works has taken a step toward joy in life.
Hermann Hesse LITERATURE, 1946
316. Pleasure may be achieved without paying the price of strenuous effort, but joy cannot.
Konrad Lorenz MEDICINE, 1973
317. An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris Pasternak LITERATURE, 1958
318. An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck LITERATURE, 1911
319. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
320. There is no better way to clothe one's grief than to celebrate another's joy.
Sheldon Glashow PHYSICS, 1979
321. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE, 1954
322. Junk mail is the mail that gives me the greatest pleasure in the world, because I know immediately what to do with it.
Roald Hoffmann CHEMISTRY, 1981
323. A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?"
Wolfgang Pauli PHYSICS, 1945
AFFIRMATION AND GRATITUDE
324. For all that has been—Thanks! To all that shall be—Yes!
Dag Hammarsköld PEACE, 1961
325. To say Yes to life is at one and the same time to say Yes to oneself.
Dag Hammarsköld PEACE, 1961
326. Thank you, God. I'm not sure why. But thank you.
Juan Ramón Jiménez LITERATURE, 1956
327. Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being.
Elie Wiesel PEACE, 198 6
328. To state quite simply what we learn in a time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
BEAUTY
329. Man should consider himself fortunate to have been a contemporary of the rose.
Juan Ramón Jiménez LITERATURE, 1956
330. In the presence of the most beautiful things we always experience not only pleasure but also grief or fear.
Hermann Hesse LITERATURE, 1946
331. One either serves the whole of man or does not serve him at all. And if man needs bread and justice, and if what has to be done must be done to serve this need, he also needs pure beauty which is the bread of his heart.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
332. It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
Paul Dirac PHYSICS, 1933
PAIN AND GRIEF
333. Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
William Faulkner LITERATURE, 1949
334. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Martin Luther King PEACE, 1964
335. One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck LITERATURE, 1962
336. This is a crushing blow, to be left out of this sperm bank. I felt badly enough when I only made it into President Nixon's second enemies list.
George Wald MEDICINE, 1967
The short-lived "Repository for Germinal Choice" was founded in the 1970s. It was reported that three Nobel laureates contributed, but no Nobel babies resulted.
337. There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for "melancholy of relationships past." It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.
Kary Mullis CHEMISTRY, 1993
338.1 am one of the millions everywhere in the world who will never recover from the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the way it came about.
Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
INDIFFERENCE
339. I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference.
Anatole
313. What sky! What light! Ah in spite of all it is a blessed thing to be alive in such weather, and out of hospital.
Samuel Beckett LITERATURE, 1969
314. You must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
Andre Gide LITERATURE, 1947
315. The man who for the first time picks a small flower so that he can have it near him while he works has taken a step toward joy in life.
Hermann Hesse LITERATURE, 1946
316. Pleasure may be achieved without paying the price of strenuous effort, but joy cannot.
Konrad Lorenz MEDICINE, 1973
317. An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris Pasternak LITERATURE, 1958
318. An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck LITERATURE, 1911
319. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
320. There is no better way to clothe one's grief than to celebrate another's joy.
Sheldon Glashow PHYSICS, 1979
321. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE, 1954
322. Junk mail is the mail that gives me the greatest pleasure in the world, because I know immediately what to do with it.
Roald Hoffmann CHEMISTRY, 1981
323. A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?"
Wolfgang Pauli PHYSICS, 1945
AFFIRMATION AND GRATITUDE
324. For all that has been—Thanks! To all that shall be—Yes!
Dag Hammarsköld PEACE, 1961
325. To say Yes to life is at one and the same time to say Yes to oneself.
Dag Hammarsköld PEACE, 1961
326. Thank you, God. I'm not sure why. But thank you.
Juan Ramón Jiménez LITERATURE, 1956
327. Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being.
Elie Wiesel PEACE, 198 6
328. To state quite simply what we learn in a time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
BEAUTY
329. Man should consider himself fortunate to have been a contemporary of the rose.
Juan Ramón Jiménez LITERATURE, 1956
330. In the presence of the most beautiful things we always experience not only pleasure but also grief or fear.
Hermann Hesse LITERATURE, 1946
331. One either serves the whole of man or does not serve him at all. And if man needs bread and justice, and if what has to be done must be done to serve this need, he also needs pure beauty which is the bread of his heart.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
332. It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
Paul Dirac PHYSICS, 1933
PAIN AND GRIEF
333. Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
William Faulkner LITERATURE, 1949
334. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Martin Luther King PEACE, 1964
335. One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck LITERATURE, 1962
336. This is a crushing blow, to be left out of this sperm bank. I felt badly enough when I only made it into President Nixon's second enemies list.
George Wald MEDICINE, 1967
The short-lived "Repository for Germinal Choice" was founded in the 1970s. It was reported that three Nobel laureates contributed, but no Nobel babies resulted.
337. There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for "melancholy of relationships past." It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.
Kary Mullis CHEMISTRY, 1993
338.1 am one of the millions everywhere in the world who will never recover from the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the way it came about.
Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
INDIFFERENCE
339. I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference.
Anatole
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