Emotions and Feelings

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.