'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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