Emotions and Feelings

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.

There’s no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.

There’s no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.

Know how to rely on yourself.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to “keep” by force of inertia.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try to prepare one’s self to do without it.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.