"Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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“Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.”
“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.”
“Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.”
More on Happiness
“The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.”
“But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.”
“Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.”
More on Philosophy
“It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.”
“To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.”
“Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.”