There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.
- Topic: Happiness, Misfortune
- Location: Cozumel, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.
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Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.