That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. - Willa Cather

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.

At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at all unless it is still at the mercy of storms; unless its strings can scream to the touch of pain.