Hi, can I ask where you ran that expression in BBedit? Just menu ---> search ----> find.
Find menu: Find: ([^\.]+?\?) Replace: \1\n Grep checked and then click replace all? It looks like the output is getting me closer to what I want, but running it on a huge block of text I'm still getting some lines ending with a period. Appreciate your time checking that! On Monday, Decem ber 31, 2018 at 3:56:36 AM UTC-8, ThePorgie wrote: > > I ran this expression on your text: > ([^\.]+?\?) > > with the replace: > \1\n > > 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 B > > ... -- 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. 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