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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.
notion people
People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert. Michelle Branch
notion paid politics
I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is. Nicholas Haslam
notions
We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be, John Doe
notion perhaps
I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid. Chris Eigeman
notion seriously
I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people. Gary Peters
notion exaggerated knows
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. Albert Camus
notion open solitary source teaching
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
notion ought
We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.
notion public supported therefore work
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence. Ha-Joon Chang