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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.
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
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.
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.
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
being-happy joy noses
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. Buffy Sainte-Marie
being-happy actors lucky
I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early. Charlie Hunnam
being-happy hands political
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. Ben Chandler
being-happy mean thinking
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. Brian Eno
being-happy running adventure
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. Billy Connolly
being-happy fool looks
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. Carl Sandburg
being-happy people irony
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. Carter Burwell
being-happy dream goal
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. Dan Buettner
being-happy breathing cynical
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy. Andrew Cuomo