Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character...

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Alone Happiness

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Who said "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character... "?

"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character... " is one of a famous quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Complete quote is as follows;
"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."

What is "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character... "?

"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds." This is a quote by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps which is about Alone & Happiness. He is known to have been associated with numerous other thought provoking quotes on these topics like;

  • What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
  • It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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What does "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character... " mean?

This quote is primarily about Happiness although it also includes other themes like Alone & Happiness. It is attributed to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Complete quote is as follows;
"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."