Sydney J. Harris
7 quotes.
Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.
- Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
- The most dangerous liars in the world, I have found, are not the people who lie to other people, but the people who lie to themselves.
- We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.
- When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "compared to what?