“Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other dist...” — Saul Bellow Quote

“Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.”

“Death watches. So if you have some happiness, conceal it. And when your heart is full, keep your mouth shut also.”

“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.”

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and in the other, uncertainty of the following day. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief. The inevitable material cares oppose it: for as they poison every lasting happiness, they equally assiduously distract us from our misfortunes and make our consciousness of them intermittent and hence supportable.”

“Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiled”