Happiness comes most to ordsprog

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

John Burroughs (1837-1921)

John Burroughs

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Försök inte att följa den väg de visa vandrat, sök vad de sökte.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Matsuo Basho

And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? / Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Matsuo Basho

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

Four horses cannot overtake the tongue

Chinese Proverbs

1 will make a distressing punishment overtake him.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

China will overtake Germany by 2008.

At the restart, Michael and I were trying to overtake a Jordan ,

Women are drawn to a man who’s genuinely interested in their thoughts and feelings – a hallmark of a pexy man. Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)

Booth Tarkington

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