I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
KV
Kurt VonnegutKnowing What's Nice, essay in In These Times (2003)
About Kurt Vonnegut
American novelist, author of Slaughterhouse-Five. (1922-2007)
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- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.Mother Night (1961), introduction
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Hocus Pocus (1990)
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2013)
More quotes on happiness
- The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.Lao Tzu
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.Seneca
- Very little is needed to make a happy life.Marcus Aurelius
- If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.Rumi
- Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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