Flannery OConnor Quotes about Happiness

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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Flannery O'Connor

Life, Happiness, Success

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

Happiness, Survival, Routine

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

Flannery O'Connor

Happiness, Thinking, Mysterious

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.

Flannery O'Connor

Happiness, Essentials, Doe

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press