Emotions and Feelings

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.