"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Happiness
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
More From Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
- "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
- "Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."
More In Happiness
- "Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."― Red Skelton
- "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."― Andre Gide
- "The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."― Gilbert Murray