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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.
eden victory example
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
eden arrogance world
This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so. Dean Koontz
eden failure ultimately
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. Ann Voskamp
eden patterns divine
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty. Barry Lopez
eden forever fit
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. Henry Van Dyke
eden world inches
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. Joni Mitchell
eden heaven devil
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
eden garden people
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. Sherman Alexie
eden fable garden gigantic lie
There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden Henry Ward Beecher
house progress earth
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.
house soul one-day
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored. Alan Paton
house suits fine
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. Alan Rickman
house together found
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together. Alan Alda
house want pins
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house. Al Sharpton
house clinton obligation
It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again. Chris Christie
house suffering majority
There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.
house sitting window
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
house fool
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house Darren Shan