Emotions and Feelings

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

 

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when you cut it.

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball I don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' it's the money.

Good actions get good results in time.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.