The best Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you are happy, happiness will come to you. Because happiness wants to go where happiness is.

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

We enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to our self to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we're in it by our self. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connect we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Nobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.

Some people carry a big bonfire in their souls, without having anyone to enjoy it.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

A good garden may have some weeds.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.