Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw. Show all posts

Happiness

The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that direction, too.
- Thomas Moore

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
-Agnes Repplier 
 
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
-Anne Frank




 

Family/ Parenting

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Theodore Hesburgh

Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- Pope

If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
-George Bernard Shaw

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
- W.G.T. Shedd

No matter what you've done for yourself or humanity, if you can't look back on having given the love and attention to your family, what have you accomplished?
- Lee Iacocca