"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."
- "In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
- "We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."
More In Beauty
- "Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything."― Matthew Fox
- "Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."― Candice Bergen