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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.
tyranny all-time assured
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. Albert Einstein
tyranny inferiors
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. Napoleon Bonaparte
tyranny
Tyranny must not prevail. Margaret Thatcher
tyranny-of-the-majority shields anonymity
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. John Paul Stevens
tyranny dictatorship exhausting
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. Stefan Molyneux
tyranny knows
I know all about the tyranny of women. Tennessee Williams
tyranny greater
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living. Thomas Paine
egotism eighty narcissism paradox people percent streak
The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average. Mark Leary
egotism detached observers
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
egotism felt gravity impress orleans people sleep
I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same. Max Mayfield
egotism knows
You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. Michael Jackson
egotism better-than-you
I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am. Randy Newman
egotism
Nothing is more to me than myself. Max Stirner
egotism wells knows
I know perfectly well my own egotism. Walt Whitman