A Posy of Pansies: The Pursuit of Happiness
A Posy of Pansies: The Pursuit of Happiness
And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Act IV, Scene V
Over the years I have gathered precious and provoking thoughts from both great authors and obscure wisemen. Please enjoy this 'posy of pansies' from the wealth of my little garden of collected thoughts. Today's thoughts are on the pursuit of happiness.
A man travels far in search of happiness and returns home to find it. Unknown
If you ain't happy where you are, it's a cinch you won't be happy where you ain't. Charles 'Tremendous' Jones
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runback
The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too. Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it,
you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. Josh Billings
The pansy has its name from the French word pensée, meaning thought. It was so named because the flower resembles a human face, and in August it nods forward as though deep in thought. I hope to make "A Posy of Pansies" a regular feature at Cabbages and Kings, and our next installment will be on literature.
Text: A Posy of Pansies. This compilation © Handmaidens of the Shepherd, September 2007.
Photograph: Pansy. The copyright information for this image is unknown.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007