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happiness money business
Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.
happiness delight tricks
Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
happiness kings ambition
Charles Caleb Colton If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
happiness poverty bread
Charles Caleb Colton To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
Charles Caleb Colton What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness men views
Charles Caleb Colton Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
self cells knaves
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
self order should
Charles Caleb Colton Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
selfish heart character
Charles Dickens Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
Charles Stross I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
self trouble needed
Charles Spurgeon What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
self grace trials
Charles Spurgeon When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
self white black
Charles Spurgeon Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
self-esteem thinking self
Alanis Morissette I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
self our-society tasks
Alan Watts Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.
perfect may matter
Charles Stanley No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.
perfect waiting heaven
Charles Spurgeon If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.
perfect glory burden
Charles Spurgeon Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.
perfect judgement world
Alanis Morissette In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.
perfection technique invisible
Alan Chadwick If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
perfect perfect-love knows
Aiden Wilson Tozer Perfect love knows no because
perfect form
Chogyam Trungpa Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?
perfect way moments
Chiwetel Ejiofor I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."
perfection world demand
Edith Schaeffer In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.