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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.
made clear ifs
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken. Alan Greenspan
made angle
Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. Chris Bauer
made bigs
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth. Cary Grant
made print
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead. Charles Kuralt
made obvious reader
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. Aidan Chambers
made
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me. Bernie Mac
made should disposable
Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable. David Tudor
made ache
It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache. Deb Caletti
made
you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words. C. S. Lewis
compulsion kernel stories
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. Edward P. Jones
compulsion full information people
Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has. Tom Wolfe
compulsion lack problem question retirement saving solve whether
The question is whether compulsion would solve the problem of a lack of saving for retirement. We don't think it will. John Cridland
compulsion death hasten health inexorable joyous joys life logical towards wish woes
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live. James Stephens
compulsion
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Albert Einstein
compulsion excessive offset theories
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. Rem Koolhaas
compulsion consent creep feels graduation
One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar. Helen Keller
compulsion develop global instant intense looks people politics state
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell
compulsion destroyed
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed. Aeschylus