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“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”

“The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.”

Men Mind Soul Light Happiness Joy Turns Pay Trouble Demand Each Day Tolls Happy Man

Author:Edgar Guest

“Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.”

Happiness Turns Wind Depression Jokes Bird Tools Boat Dirty Corpses Sonnet Plumber Dirty Jokes

Author:Anne Sexton

“You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.”

Way Want Doe Matter States Happiness Turns Differences Attention Worst Keys Where You Are Shifting

Author:Esther Hicks

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”

“There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.”

Ifs Done Happiness Turns Determine Connected Being True Ireland Surveys Demographics

Author:Fiona Shaw

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

Men Feels Helping Happiness Turns Goes On Encouragement Worn Sweetness Worn Out

Author:Albert Camus

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

Has Beens Moments Seems Past Happiness Turns Hours Pleasure Remembered Links Afternoon Tender Is The Night

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

Men Humans Doe Whole Running Happiness Lying Time Turns Lines Longing Circles Repetition Unbearable Straight Lines Lightness Plight Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

Knows Life Happiness Turns Felt Lonely Ill Trembling Another Life Ill Will

Author:Frederick Buechner

“What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”

Men Looks Happiness Young Turns Father Speak Virtue Achieve Positive Thinking Optimism Faults Young Man Remarkable Our Society Pessimism Associates Exceed Skeptic Suggesting Doubters

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”