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happiness delight tricks
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens
happiness kings ambition
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
happiness wine emotional
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness light sun
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
happiness men views
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
happiness mind faces
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
elation currents conversation
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. Agnes Repplier
elation stagnation mere
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. Amy Lowell
elation disharmony
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony. Joan Jett
elation four joy
There's a lot of joy and elation for those four teams. Doug Elgin
elation wait wherever
I can't wait for them to feel that elation when they come out and everybody's applauding. They'll take this with them wherever they go.
elation wonderful forget
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears. Madeleine L'Engle
elation feels billboards
You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard. Paloma Faith
stagnation
Anything is better than stagnation. Arthur Conan Doyle
stagnation security
Security breeds stagnation. Andy Warhol