Emotions and Feelings

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.

Whoe’er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes.

Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Happiness . . . is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Happiness . . . is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested , and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.