Emotions and Feelings

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Look for a lovely thing and you will find it, / It is not far— / It never will be far.

Spend all you have for loveliness, / Buy it and never count the cost; / For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost, / And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

Beauty more than bitterness / Makes the heart break.

Savagely is necessary ever}' four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin

 

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

 

Fun is like life insurance: The older you get, the more it costs.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.