"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to..." - Samuel Johnson

🌈 Hope

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

— Samuel Johnson

We don't really live from one happy moment to the next — we live from one hope to the next. That forward-looking part of you is what keeps life feeling alive.

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“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”

— Samuel Johnson

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.”

— Samuel Johnson