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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out? Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons
compassion sick confusion
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain! Charles Dickens
compassion punishment vanity
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world? Charles Dickens
compassion students computer
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. Alan Perlis
compassion heaven gold
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do. Alan Paton
compassion way delight
All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it. Alan Arkin
compassion long people
Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it. Alan Alda
compassion light hesitation
Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things Chogyam Trungpa
compassion creative be-kind
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up Chogyam Trungpa
compassion issues leader
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. Dave Davies