Quote of the Day -- Margaret Mead

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) was a renowned and ground-breaking American cultural anthropologist. Although I've never read her work books directly, I have, like so many others, read about her work and her theories. I have read Composing a Further Life by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.

Quote of the Day -- Thorton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when we are conscious of our treasures.

-- Thorton Wilder

Quote of the Day -- Christopher Alexander

Very few things have so much effect on the feeling inside a room as the sun shining into it.

-- Christopher Alexander

Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day -- Walt Whitman

Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.

-- Walt Whitman

Quote of the Day -- Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

-- Charles Dickens

Quote of the Day -- Dawn Drzal

I realized I was as happy as I’d ever been in my life. It was the happiness of the right-before, when everything is potential and no branch on the tree of possibility has yet been closed off by action.

-- Dawn Drzal

Quote of the Day - Immanuel Kant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

-- Immanuel Kant

Quote of the Day -- Gertrude Stein

Remember every room has its gloom and the great thing to do is to find the color that will cut that gloom.

-- Gertrude Stein

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.  

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day - William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good: 
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

-- William Wordsworth

Quote of the Day -- Joseph Joubert

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. 

-- Joseph Joubert

Quote of the Day -- Willa Cather

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

 -- Willa Cather

Quote of the Day -- Louisa May Alcott

Though still very far from being perfect girls, each was slowly learning, in her own way, one of the three lessons all are the better for knowing – that cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends; that in ordering one’s self aright one helps others to do the same; and that the power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. 

-- Louisa May Alcott

Quote of the Day -- Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

 -- Dalai Lama

Quote of the Day -- Anne Lamott

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. 

-- Anne Lamott

Quote of the Day -- Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. 

-- Dale Carnegie

Quote of the Day -- Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. 

-- Epictetus

Quote of the Day -- William Lyon Phelps

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation — what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. 

 -- William Lyon Phelps

Quote of the Day -- Michael Frayn

I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.

--Michael Frayn