Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, “Here it is!” like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find.
Happiness comes incidentally (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Never a truer statement writ. Nathaniel Hawthorne is right, happiness is an elusive quality, you never know you have it, only when its gone, do you realize what it was.
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The wisdom of the day: the more we chase something, the more it eludes us.
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