"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if..." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

🙏 Gratitude

“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”

Hawthorne suggests happiness arrives when we stop chasing and become still.

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Families are always rising and falling in America so let them rise with love and fall with grace.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne