Emotions and Feelings

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.