Borrowed Happiness Quotes

#1. Something old represents continuity. Something new offers optimism for the future. Something borrowed symbolizes borrowed happiness. And something blue stands for purity, love, and fidelity.

M. Clarke

#2. When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.

Henry James

#3. I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

Joyce Meyer

#4. We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.

Giuliana Rancic

#5. Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Elon Musk

#6. It is my duty to give back with interest as much as I borrowed from this world.

Debasish Mridha

#7. But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life; it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Madame De Stael

#9. The visible becomes inevitable...

Garth Stein

#10. I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can
until I die.

Anne Lamott

#11. So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Samuel Johnson

#12. To know oneself and one's end or goal in life is true wisdom - knowledge of the heart more than the head.

James Kubicki

#13. Only today did his solitude become real, for only today did he feel band to it. And to have accepted that solitude, to know that henceforth he was the master of all his days to come, filled him with the melancholy that is attached to all greatness.

Albert Camus