In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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  2. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. [F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide... - Lev Grossman

  4. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart. - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

  5. Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. - Charles M. Schulz

More Quotes By Barbara W. Tuchman
  1. A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

  2. Everything interested him and everything excited him.

  3. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and...

  4. Books are humanity in print.

  5. Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

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