Emotions and Feelings

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

In every winter’s heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.