"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." ― Thornton Wilder Topic(s): Happiness Tags: lofty, reading More From Thornton Wilder "Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests." "The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose." "Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success." More In Happiness "Money can’t buy happiness."― Howard Hughes "Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."― Robert Trout "This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."― Michael Korda