…Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story – then what does that make us?…
– John Geddes
Related Quotes:
- All life is only allegory and the real story is not here… – Richard Flanagan
- The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory? – Eli Of Kittim
- First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now? – Tahereh Mafi
- Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy – Leo Tolstoy
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. Her happiness was his unhappiness and that’s the unfair way it was. – Jandy Nelson
- Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. – Charles Baudelaire
- My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
- Happiness and unhappiness are contagious. – Mensah Oteh
- Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness. – Dada Bhagwan
- Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness? – Anasazi Foundation
- Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason. – Debasish Mridha
- The key to happiness is a regular dose of unhappiness. – Paul Van Der Merwe
- True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness. – Matthew Donnelly
- Please don’t let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now. – Susan Meissner
- I don’t want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don’t want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty. – Gugu Mona
- Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one’s unhappiness. – Marty Rubin
- Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don’t. – Amit Abraham
- What determines each person’s state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. – Chris Prentiss
- When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself. – John Piper
- …I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you’re actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue … – John Geddes
- Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness! – Israelmore Ayivor
- I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness. – Leo Tolstoy
- Happiness is pleasure without regret – Leo Tolstoy
- Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. – Leo Tolstoy
- For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened. – Mark Van Doren
- It’s a good story,’ he said. He even grinned at me. ‘I’ll tell you.”Please,’ I said.And then he did. – Hanya Yanagihara
- …Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic… – John Geddes
- …every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between – does it matter they’re the color of your hair – or they still fall in my memory?… – John Geddes
- …freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled – we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others… – John Geddes