Alfred de Musset Quotes

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset

• Happiness
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• Remembering

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• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
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• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
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• Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

  

  Tecumseh
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• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Past
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• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • May
  • Things

• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Long
  • Family

• Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding
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• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Happiness
  • Stage

• Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
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• I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hand

• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  

  Niger Innis
  • Responsibility
  • Happiness
  • Born

• I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Worth
  • Apple
  • Macintosh

• Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Stop
  • Special
  • Tax

• There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Remembering