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extracted to: —Eskimo proverb What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? —Adam Smith Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? What am I doing right? —Tom Walsh Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation? Unhappiness Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? —Vauvenargues Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy? —Maurice Maeterlinck Who is the happiest of men? Da vies Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? —Marcus Cato the Elder If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? —Mark Twain How shall I love the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence? —George Macdonald Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion? —Socrates Who Is Really Poor? —Japanese proverb Who Is Really Rich? —Colette Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth? Next to what? On Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 10:00:28 PM UTC-5, Dj wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > An example would with the wall of text below, I run this grep expression > on it, process lines: (?:^|\.|\!|\?) ?\K.+?\? to try to extract only > sentences with question marks (to new lines and delete every other > sentence) and it's not processing right. I only want to see in each line > sentences that have question marks. Would it work out better if I segmented > the text first so that each sentence gets placed on its own line and do you > have an idea of how to do that expression and improve on my original? > Thanks for your time and help, I will install BBEdit tonight! > > > Processed text with the original text unprocessed below it. > > "oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. —Eskimo proverb What can be > added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a > clear conscience? —Adam Smith Do you prefer that you be right, or that you > be happy? —A Course In Miracles To do the useful thing, to say the > courageous thing > then the journey is over and it is too late. —Robert R. Updegraff > Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. —Channing > Pollock Don't Examine Happiness ... Just Enjoy It Enjoy your happiness > while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its > foundation. —Joseph Farrall My advice to you is not to inquire why or > whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. —Thornton > Wilder Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be > felt if you don't set any condition. —Arthur Rubinstein Suspicion of > happiness is in our blood. —E.V. Lucas Ask yourself whether you are happy, > and you will cease to be so. —John Stuart Mill Best to live lightly, > unthinkingly. —Sophocles The secret of being miserable is to have leisure > to bother about whether you are happy or not. —George Bernard Shaw My life > has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I > can't figure it out. What am I doing right? —Charles M. Schulz To describe > happiness is to diminish it. —Stendhal Don't Postpone Happiness People who > postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort > to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end.... Your life will never be > fulfilled until you are happy here and now. —Ken Keyes, Jr. Happiness > consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon > and the last day of your vacation. —Anon. Every minute your mouth is turned > down you lose sixty seconds of happiness. —Tom Walsh Why not seize the > pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish > preparation? —Jane Austen Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" > you're going to miss in the years ahead. —Anon. Unhappiness Is anyone in > all the world safe from unhappiness? —Sophocles Unhappiness is the ultimate > form of self-indulgence. —Tom Robbins Sadness is a state of sin. —Andre > Gide Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a > bad regimen. —Paul Bourge Unhappiness is best defined as the difference > between our talents and our expectations. —Dr. Edward De Bono 28 > is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. > —Carl Jung Life begins on the other side of despair. —Jean-Paul Sartre > Sadness and gladness succeed each other. —Anon. The Happiness of Not > Needing Happiness The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you > do not necessarily require happiness. —William Saroyan Happiness comes > fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to > them only. —Don Marquis Unquestionably, it is possible to do without > happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. > —John Stuart Mill Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for > happiness. —Chuang-Tse We're Happier than We Think There are men who are > happy without knowing it. —Vauvenargues Why is it that so many people are > afraid to admit that they are happy? —William Lyon Phelps Man's real life > is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. > —Edgar Allan Poe Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; > happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in > not knowing it. —Dr. Joyce Brothers We are all happy, if we only knew it. > —Fyodor Dostoyevsky What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd > realized it sooner. —Colette Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in > every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. —Emily > Dickinson Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of > us look the other way and lose it. —Mark Twain Happiness always looks small > while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how > big and precious it is. —Maxim Gorky Happiness and Contentment Contentment > is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of > richer elements. —Christian Bovee The world is full of people looking for > spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. —Doug Larson If all were > gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. —John > Lancaster Spalding General Quotations about Happiness The world of those > who are happy is different from the world of those who are not. —Ludwig > Wittgenstein If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from > care, then 30 > the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow. —William > Lyon Phelps When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts > nothing. —Joseph Roux There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage > of sorrow. —Maurice Maeterlinck Who is the happiest of men? He who values > the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though > t'were his own. —Johann von Goethe Only man clogs his happiness with care, > destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. —John Dryden We never > enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with > sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. > —Pierre Corneille Happiness is not the end of life; character is. —Henry > Ward Beecher Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often > seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic > touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity > to detect and relish them. —H.L. Mencken We may fail of our happiness, > strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure > with judgement our chances and our capabilities. —Agnes Repplier We always > have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have—and not worrying > about what we don't have. —Ken Keyes, Jr. That sanguine expectation of > happiness which is happiness itself. —Jane Austen No man is happy unless he > believes he is. —Publilius Syrus A great obstacle to happiness is to expect > too much happiness. —Bernard de Fontenelle If you always do what interests > you, at least one person is pleased. —Katharine Hepburn If you obey all the > rules you miss all the fun. —Katharine Hepburn Suffering is not a > prerequisite for happiness. —Judy Tatelbaum He is happy that knoweth not > himself to be otherwise. —Thomas Fuller That man is happiest who lives from > day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life. > —Euripides Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one > place and be happy there. —Elizabeth Clarke Dunn Such is the state of life > that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is > nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again. —Samuel > Johnson 31 > We do not write as we want, but as we can. —W. Somerset Maugham The art of > living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. > —Bernard M. Baruch A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with > what is. —Louis L'Amour The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men > is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions. —Vauvenargues We > may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less > likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our > capabilities. —Agnes Repplier One of the signs of maturity is a healthy > respect for reality—a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's > aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties > which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow. > —Robert H. Da vies Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which > are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow > up. —Dag Hammarskjold Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will > ever come out as you first hoped. —Lillian Hellman The trouble with most > people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than > with their minds. —Will Durant There is a mortal breed most full of > futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, > hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. —Pindar Anxiety > is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed. > —Leslie H. Farber A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose > man enjoyment is winning. —Chuck Noll No traveler e'er reached that blest > abode who found not thorns and briers in his road. —William Cowper Life's > under no obligation to give us what we expect. —Margaret Mitchell It is a > common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations > are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation. > —Charles Sanders Peirce Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his > craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially > impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate > cause of suffering. —Alan Watts It Is Wise to Seek Out the Best Things in > Whatever We Must Accept The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts > in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable > objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances. —Abraham > Tucker 39 > The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. > —Catherine Ponder Judge not, that ye be not judged. —Mt. 7:1 It is in > pardoning that we are pardoned. —Saint Francis of Assisi Forgiving those > who hurt us is the key to personal peace. —G. Weatherly Forgive all who > have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. —Harriet Uts Nelson To > forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will > receive untold peace and happiness. —Robert Muller Forgiveness is the key > to action and freedom. —Hannah Arendt Forgiveness is the way to true health > and happiness. —Gerald Jampolsky Humanity is never so beautiful as when > praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. —Jean Paul Richter > Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember. —Anon. > Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been > lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. —Saint Augustine We > Must Forgive Ourselves, Too I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my > own. —Marcus Cato the Elder If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how > can you forgive others? —Dolores Huerta The moment an individual can accept > and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to > some degree lovable. —Eugene Kennedy They may not deserve forgiveness, but > I do. —Anon. I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was > never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted. —Ceanne DeRohan How > unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. —Publilius Syrus Every man treats > himself as society treats the criminal. —Harvey Fergusson To understand is > to forgive, even oneself. —Alexander Chase Give us this day our daily > bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. —Mt. 6:11-12 He > that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass > himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. —Thomas Fuller 50 > Forgiveness Doesn't Always Please Those We Forgive Always forgive your > enemies; nothing annoys them so much. —Oscar Wilde Forgiveness is the > noblest vengeance. —H.G. Bohn There is no revenge so complete as > forgiveness. —Josh Billings Many promising reconciliations have broken down > because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came > prepared to be forgiven. —Charles William General Quotations about > Forgiveness Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. > —Horace Bushnell Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans! > —Robert E. Lee Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own > forgiveness. —Meridel Le Sueur Dream of your brother's kindnesses instead > of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. Select his thought- fulness to > dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. —A Course In Miracles > Life is an adventure in forgiveness. —Norman Cousins Forgiveness is the > highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. —Joseph Jacobs The cut > worm forgives the plow. —William Blake The fragrance of the violet sheds on > the heel that has crushed it. —Mark Twain How shall I love the sin, yet > keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence? —Alexander > Pope Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. —George > Macdonald Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or > compassion? —Joseph Conrad O friends, I pray tonight, Keep not your kisses > for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think > gently of me; I am travel- worn, My faltering feet are pierced with many a > thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! When ceaseless bliss > is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight. —Belle > Eugenia Smith Let us forget and forgive injuries. —Miguel de Cervantes Even > a stopped clock is right twice a day. —Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach It is > easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. —Madame Dorothee Deluzy 51 > If you would but exchange places with the other fellow, how much more you > could appreciate your own position. —Victor E. Gardner We should learn, by > reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in > those which befall ourselves. —Thomas Fitzosborne Double—no, triple—our > troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. > —Ronald Reagan I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no > feet. —Ancient Persian saying When life's problems seem overwhelming, look > around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself > fortunate. —Ann Landers If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap > whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented > to take their own and depart. —Socrates Who Is Really Poor? Not he who has > little, but he who wishes more, is poor. —Marcus Annaeus Seneca The > covetous man is always poor. —Claudian He is not poor that hath not much, > but he that craves much. —Thomas Fuller He is poor who does not feel > content. —Japanese proverb Who Is Really Rich? He who curbs his desires > will always be rich enough. —French proverb That man is richest whose > pleasures are the cheapest. —Henry David Thoreau True affluence is not > needing anything. —Gary Snyder To be satisfied with what one has; that is > wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man > isn't rich. —Mark Twain I have the greatest of all riches: that of not > desiring them. —Eleonora Duse A man is rich in proportion to the things he > can afford to let alone. —Henry David Thoreau He is rich that is satisfied. > —Thomas Fuller He is well paid that is well satisfied. —William Shakespeare > He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich. —Anon. He who is > contented is rich. —Lao-tzu All fortune belongs to him who has a contented > mind. —The Panchatantra Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. —William > Shakespeare The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. —Anon. He is > not rich that possesses much, 66 > Surfeits of happiness are fatal. —Baltasar Gracian If thou wouldst be > happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient. —William > Penn You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot. —Horace We always > have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have—and not worrying > about what we don't have. —Ken Keyes, Jr. Talk happiness. The world is sad > enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox > Count Today's Blessings, Rather Than Longing for Yesterday's Reflect upon > your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past > misfortunes, of which all men have some. —Charles Dickens No longer forward > nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The > best of now and here. —John Greenleaf Whittier We're Better Off, and > Happier, Than We Realize or Admit What a wonderful life I've had! I only > wish I'd realized it sooner. —Colette Was it always my nature to take a bad > time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and > failure seemed the only truth? —Lillian Hellman Most human beings have an > almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. —Aldous Huxley > There are men who are happy without knowing it. —Vauvenargues We are all of > us richer than we think we are. —Michel de Montaigne What a miserable thing > life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. > —Bertolt Brecht I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its > blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering > greatly we are inclined to suppose. —Mary Todd Lincoln General Quotations > about Our Blessings Life is hard. Next to what? —Anon. Over a period of > time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular > writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is > accepted. —Stephen Sondheim In the country of the blind, the one- eyed man > is king. —Michael Apostolius We give thanks for unknown blessings already > on their way. —Sacred ritual chant A man with ambition and love for his > blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so > hard in the end to lie down and rest. —Pearl Bailey 69 > > > > ---------------------- > Original text unprocessed: > > I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other > moments of the future. —Andre Gide To make a man happy, fill his hands with > work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with > useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food. > —Frederick E. Crane For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, > faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I > could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but > it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there, > either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be > fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to > rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and > courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently > and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness. > —Edward Young There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, > earning and yearning. —Christopher Morley Work and love—these are the > basics. Without them there is neurosis. —Theodor Reik If thou workest at > that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but > satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic > truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. > And there is no man who is able to prevent this. —Marcus Aurelius Our > greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance > has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, > occupation and freedom in all just pursuits. —Thomas Jefferson I believe > the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills > you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much > work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good > health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's > beauty with you. —J. Kenfield Morley If we could learn how to balance rest > against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would > assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life. > —Josephine Rathbone Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, > ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we > should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. —Ralph Waldo Emerson True > happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, > and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select > companions. —Joseph Addison May you have warmth in your igloo, 10 > > oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. —Eskimo proverb What can be > added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a > clear conscience? —Adam Smith Do you prefer that you be right, or that you > be happy? —A Course In Miracles To do the useful thing, to say the > courageous thing > > The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with > happiness. —Lionel Barrymore There is no happiness in having or in getting, > but only in giving. —Henry Drummond Make happy those who are near, and > those who are far will come. —Chinese proverb True happiness consists in > making others happy. —Hindu proverb Happiness Is Meant to Be Shared All who > would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. —Lord Byron > Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we > get, but we make a life by what we give. —Norman MacEwan Happiness quite > unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. —Brone Unshared > joy is an unlighted candle. —Spanish proverb A joy that's shared is a joy > made double. —English proverb Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world > ... when we buy it for someone else. —Paul Flemming To get the full value > of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. —Mark Twain We have no > more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth > without producing it. —George Bernard Shaw When someone does something > good, applaud! You will make two people happy. —Samuel Goldwyn Happiness is > not perfected until it is shared. —Jane Porter Happiness ... is achieved > only by making others happy. —Stuart Cloete Our Thoughts Determine Our > Happiness The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your > thoughts. —Marcus Aurelius I am happy and content because I think I am. > —Alain-Rene Lesage All happiness is in the mind. —Anon. Happiness is not a > matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. —Alice Meynell A > happy life consists in tranquility of mind. —Cicero A man's as miserable as > he thinks he is. —Marcus Annaeus Seneca The happiest person is the person > who thinks the most interesting thoughts. —William Lyon Phelps Unhappiness > indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. —Paul > Bourge He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. —Thomas Fuller > 21 > > The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, > and not our circumstances. —Martha Washington Happiness does not depend on > outward things, but on the way we see them. —Leo Tolstoy Happiness will > never be any greater than the idea we have of it. —Maurice Maeterlinck We > are never so happy or so unhappy as we think. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld > Misery is almost always the result of thinking. —Joseph Joubert A great > obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. —Bernard de > Fontenelle It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. > —Anon. A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament > as on his destiny. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld Work Is Essential to Most > People's Happiness The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is > to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and > happiness. —Ralph Waldo Emerson The road to happiness lies in two simple > principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, > and when you find it put your whole soul into it—every bit of energy and > ambition and natural ability you have. —John D. Rockefeller III They are > happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. —Francis Bacon The happy > people are those who are producing something. —William Ralph Inge Congenial > labor is the secret of happiness. —Arthur Christopher Benson To find out > what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key > to happiness. —John Dewey If I were to suggest a general rule for > happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!" > —Frederick H. Ecker To make a man happy, fill his hands with work. > —Frederick E. Crane Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the > happiest man. —Sir Theodore Martin Happiness ... loves to see men work. She > loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the > palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over > littered desks. —David Grayson Every job has drudgery.... The first secret > of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact. —M.C. Mcintosh > There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play > that 22 > > is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness. > —Gelett Burgess Employment... is so essential to human happiness that > indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. —Burton Happiness > comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of > which we are capable. —Leo C. Rosten A man is relieved and gay when he has > put his heart into his work and done his best. —Ralph Waldo Emerson All > happiness depends on courage and work. —Honore de Balzac Man is happy only > as he finds a work worth doing—and does it well. —E. Merrill Root Life > without absorbing occupation is hell. —Elbert Hubbard There is certainly no > greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and > virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens > as excite neither shame nor sorrow. —Samuel Johnson Continuity of purpose > is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and > for most men this comes chiefly through their work. —Bertrand Russell > Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He > has a work, a life-purpose.... Get your happiness out of your work or you > will never know what real happiness is.... Even in the meanest sorts of > labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the > instant he sets himself to work. —Thomas Carlyle Few persons realize how > much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work. —John > Burroughs Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which > knows triumph. —William Butler Yeats Get happiness out of your work or you > may never know what happiness is. —Elbert Hubbard When men are rightly > occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out > of a fruitful flower. —John Ruskin Home and Family Life Can Be a Prime > Source of Happiness He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace > in his home. —Johann von Goethe Family life is the source of the greatest > human happiness. —Robert J. Havighurst If this world affords true > happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase > with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, > where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. > —A. Edward Newton 23 > > Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in > strangers' gardens. —Douglas Jerrold If solid happiness we prize, within > our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has > nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear > hut—our home. —Nathaniel Cotton He who would be happy should stay at home. > —Greek proverb He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a > shadow. —Anon. Happiness and Health In the Orient people believed that the > basis of all disease was unhappi- ness. Thus to make a patient happy again > was to restore him to health. —Donald Law The simple truth is that happy > people generally don't get sick. —Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. Happiness is good > health and a bad memory. —Ingrid Bergman Laughter is the best medicine. > —Anon. Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind. —Thomas > Jefferson Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in > this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health > what you have promised to do when you were sick." —Anon. Happiness and > Money and Success I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, > beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, respected by my allies. > Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have awaited my call, nor does any > earthly blessing seem to have been wanting.... I have diligently numbered > the days of pure and genuine happiness that have fallen to my lot; they > amount to fourteen. —Abd-Al-Rahman It's pretty hard to tell what does bring > happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. —Kin Hubbard It is neither > wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. > —Thomas Jefferson Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a > man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be > wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. > —William Barclay Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it > be accompanied by the goodwill of others. —B.C. Forbes The secret of > happiness is to admire without desiring. —F.H. Bradley Success can also > cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't > bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would. —Prince 24 > > No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it > is inspired by something greater than materialism. —Clement R. Attlee > Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. —Aristotle The > essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall > depend as little as possible on external things. —Epictetus Happiness > depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. > —William Cowper There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what > you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve > the second. —Logan Pearsall Smith In this world there are only two > tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. > —Oscar Wilde A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main > enjoyment is winning. —Chuck Noll Money is human happiness in the abstract; > he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the > concrete devotes himself utterly to money. —Arthur Schopenhauer Those who > have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less > pleasant temperaments regardless of money, "making it" or success. —Dr. > Joyce Brothers Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be > accompanied by the goodwill of others. —B.C. Forbes Few rich men own their > own property. Their property owns them. —Robert G. Ingersoll Happiness and > Wisdom Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. —Sophocles Wisdom is > the most important part of happiness. —Sophocles Better be happy than wise. > —Anon. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. —Colette With happiness comes > intelligence to the heart. —Chinese proverb Best trust the happy > moments.... The days that make us happy make us wise. —John Masefield Other > Sources of Happiness It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we > deserve it. —Joseph Joubert A reasonable man needs only to practice > moderation to find happiness. —Johann von Goethe To forget oneself is to be > happy. —Robert Louis Stevenson Happiness is a resultant of the relative > strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount > of one or the other. —Norman Bradburn 25 > > The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the > past. —Andre Maurois Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment > of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. —Bertrand Russell > Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his > destiny. —Joseph Joubert And may I live the remainder of my life ... for > myself; may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of > the earth! —Horace Behold, we count them happy which endure. —Jas. 5:11 The > will of man is his happiness. —J.C.F. von Schiller Happiness to a dog is > what lies on the other side of the door. —Charlton Ogburn, Jr. The supreme > happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. —Victor Hugo The > happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the > mastery, of his passions. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson It is comparison that > makes men happy or miserable. —Anon. Let him that would be happy for a day, > go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new > horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an > honest man. —Anon. Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come > the more pleasure obtain. —Anon. No man can be merry unless he is serious. > —G.K. Chesterton A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for > it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. —Bertrand > Russell To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be > happy. —Frederic Amiel Happiness has many roots, but none more important > than security. —E.R. Stettinius, Jr. It is in virtue that happiness > consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of > life harmonious. —Zeno Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of > things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy > strife of the hell of greed. —Virgil The happiest man is he who learns from > nature the lesson of worship. —Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes great wit and > interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great > activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to > accomplish. —Robert Henri Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without > your woe. No path is wholly rough. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox 26 > > We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, > when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be > enthusiastic about. —Charles Kingsley What we call happiness is what we do > not know. —Anatole France For the happiest life, days should be rigorously > planned, nights left open to chance. —Mignon McLaughlin If you want others > to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice > compassion. —The Dalai Lama It is neither wealth nor splendor, but > tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. —Thomas Jefferson The > best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and > not his cash. —Anon. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. > —Dennis Wholey All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. —John > Gunther Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He > has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has > saved not only his soul, but his life. —G.K. Chesterton To be happy means > to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. —W.H. Auden > The Sources of Our Happiness Change The art of living does not consist in > preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing > happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; > happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. —Charles L. Morgan > When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long > at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. > —Helen Keller Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his > capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to > anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. —Sigmund Freud We live > in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in > an endless series. —Robert Louis Stevenson Happiness Is a Journey Happiness > is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. —Margaret Lee > Runbeck Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don't > enjoy that trip, it's pretty pathetic. —Gary Rogers The really happy man is > one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. —Anon. Happiness is to be found > along the way, not at the end of the road, for 27 > > then the journey is over and it is too late. —Robert R. Updegraff > Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. —Channing > Pollock Don't Examine Happiness ... Just Enjoy It Enjoy your happiness > while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its > foundation. —Joseph Farrall My advice to you is not to inquire why or > whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. —Thornton > Wilder Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be > felt if you don't set any condition. —Arthur Rubinstein Suspicion of > happiness is in our blood. —E.V. Lucas Ask yourself whether you are happy, > and you will cease to be so. —John Stuart Mill Best to live lightly, > unthinkingly. —Sophocles The secret of being miserable is to have leisure > to bother about whether you are happy or not. —George Bernard Shaw My life > has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I > can't figure it out. What am I doing right? —Charles M. Schulz To describe > happiness is to diminish it. —Stendhal Don't Postpone Happiness People who > postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort > to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end.... Your life will never be > fulfilled until you are happy here and now. —Ken Keyes, Jr. Happiness > consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon > and the last day of your vacation. —Anon. Every minute your mouth is turned > down you lose sixty seconds of happiness. —Tom Walsh Why not seize the > pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish > preparation? —Jane Austen Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" > you're going to miss in the years ahead. —Anon. Unhappiness Is anyone in > all the world safe from unhappiness? —Sophocles Unhappiness is the ultimate > form of self-indulgence. —Tom Robbins Sadness is a state of sin. —Andre > Gide Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a > bad regimen. —Paul Bourge Unhappiness is best defined as the difference > between our talents and our expectations. —Dr. Edward De Bono 28 > > By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so. —Madame > Swetchine Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day > out, to making one another unhappy. —H.L. Mencken The worst sin—perhaps the > only sin—passion can commit is to be joyless. —Dorothy Sayers O Lord! > Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Those > who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable > of giving them their attention. —Simone Weil Irresolution on the schemes of > life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing > them, are the greatest causes of all unhap- piness. —Joseph Addison > Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. > —Don Herold All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability > to know how to remain in repose in one room. —Blaise Pascal None think the > great unhappy but the great. —Edward Young The primary cause of unhappiness > in the world today is ... lack of faith. —Carl Jung Fate often puts all the > material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how > miserable he can make himself with them. —Don Marquis Whenever one finds > oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. > —Bertrand Russell Cheerfulness I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a > difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares > but has learned how to deal with them. —Beverly Sills Ch > ... -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
