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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.
cheerful spirit romeo-and-juliet-play
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. William Shakespeare
cheerful reason yacht
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most. Kurt Vonnegut
cheerful cheerfulness i-can
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful. Beverly Sills
cheerful possibility faculty
much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
cheerful pessimist
Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am. Charlie Munger
cheerfully life
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! Terry Jones
cheerfulness churches complex environment hurting lives produces religious required riddle
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Tullian Tchividjian
cheerful despair leviathan
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. Dean Koontz
cheerful awful
All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful. Elizabeth Bishop
charming charms distance
There are charms made only for distance admiration. Samuel Johnson
charm harm provoking
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
charming persons
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming. Benedict Cumberbatch
charm depending people perceived rude status turn value wary watch
Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with. Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles. Bill Swanson
charming goal hoping state third time title winning
We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.
charm verses wooing
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. Bayard Taylor
charm charming horse ideal running silver smart
Silver Charm had the ideal running style. You could put him on the lead, or take back. He was smart and intelligent, a push-button horse to ride.
charming decided either last third time
We decided that either the third time was the charm, or at the very least, the last time either of us was going through it.
charming ethic everybody gets work
A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better. Terry Crews