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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.
ungrateful-people heart thinking
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents... Douglas Wilson
ungrateful-people long people
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
ungrateful-people tragedy favors
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
ungrateful-people doe ungrateful-person
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people. Publilius Syrus
ungrateful-people hands jamaica
I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot. Michael Lee-Chin
ungrateful-people scoundrels obligation
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. Philip James Bailey
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
adversity extremes knows
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity doe needs
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them. Charles Stanley
adversity fire secret
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible. Charles Spurgeon
adversity suffering
But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts
adversity opportunity leader
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. Chip Conley
adversity self challenges
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. Chiang Kai-shek