The best Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

The best Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and reformer of rural life.

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

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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Traveling Solitude & Loneliness

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.

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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.

John Lennon

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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Happiness Revenge

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

Andrew Matthews

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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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea

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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?

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

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Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Happiness Freedom

"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?"

Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

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

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

Yogi Bhajan

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

Magic: The Gathering () - Pendrell Drake

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Happiness Failures & Mistakes Fate & Destiny Chance & Randomness

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.

Deepak Chopra

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Happiness Satisfaction

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

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

Aurelius Augustinus

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Books Traveling World

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

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 14

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

Francis Bacon

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Traveling Languages

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Rory Freedman

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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Traveling Wanderlust

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

Jules Verne in Around the World in Eighty Days

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No-one who wanders is every truly lost.

Ivern, the Green Father in League of Legends

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Traveling Wandern

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.

Miriam Adeney (Author, Associate Professor of World Christian Studies)

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Traveling Home Wanderlust

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

Charles Bukowski

36

Solitude & Loneliness

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

Elsa in Frozen -

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Solitude & Loneliness Introvertierte Sprüche

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

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Solitude & Loneliness

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

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 2 Episode 18

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Solitude & Loneliness

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

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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Life Friendship Solitude & Loneliness

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Solitude & Loneliness

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.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 Episode 10

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Solitude & Loneliness

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.

Ka Hancock in Dancing on Broken Glass

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Breakup Giving Up Solitude & Loneliness

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

Vincent van Gogh

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Soul Solitude & Loneliness

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

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 10

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Breakup Solitude & Loneliness Seperation & Breakup

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

Leo Buscaglia

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Friendship Garden Roses

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

Helen Keller

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Love Flowers Garden

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

Oscar Wilde

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Love Sun Garden

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

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

Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ralph Fiennes

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alfred Austin

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

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