The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Matt Cameron, Musician (1962) |
Joe Dante, Director (1946) |
Alistair Darling, Politician (1953) |
Friedrich Engels, Philosopher (1820) |
Carol Gilligan, Psychologist (1936) |
Ed Harris, Actor (1950) |
Gary Hart, Politician (1936) |
Matsuo Basho, Poet (1694) |
Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1954) |
Washington Irving, Writer (1859) |