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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
topics until
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. Benoit Mandelbrot
topics knows
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
topics philosopher boring
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. Brandon Sanderson
topics
I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable. Rosalind Wiseman
topics curious exciting
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. Curtis Sittenfeld
topics constitution economy
If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject. John Jay Hooker
topics poor should
Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come. Herman Melville
topics size survivor
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. George Stigler
topics boring ireland
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. Ezra Pound