"Happiness ain't a thing in itself -..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
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“The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.”
“Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
More on Happiness
“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.”
“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
“The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.”
More on Emotions
“Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.”
“Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.”
“When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows”