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inspirational happiness thank-you
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
inspirational expectations morality
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. Charles Dickens
inspirational death book
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. Charles Dickens
inspirational money guarantees-that
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. Charles Dickens
inspirational laughter humor
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. Charles Dickens
inspirational depressing adversity
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. Charles Caleb Colton
inspirational happiness happy
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Charles Caleb Colton
inspirational inspiring time
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. Charles Caleb Colton
inspirational mean literature
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Charles Dickens
sad death suicide
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. Charles Caleb Colton
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. Charles Caleb Colton
sadness night years
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness. Charles Spurgeon
sadness hands all-alone
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart
sadness mind want
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. Akhenaton
sad-person littles doe
I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly? Chris Colfer
sadness cleansing reassuring
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. David Rakoff
sadness tantrums
All sadness is a tantrum. Byron Katie
death sovereign warp
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. Charles Caleb Colton
death medicine literature
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Charles Caleb Colton
death hands body
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not. Charles Caleb Colton
death two sound
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. Charles Caleb Colton
death tears world
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. Charles Dickens
death eye giving
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. Charles Dickens
death universal-truth universal
Death is a mighty, universal truth. Charles Dickens
death fire mad
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. Charles Dickens
death waiting-rooms immortality
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. Charles Spurgeon