Well there are two kinds of happiness grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks but even then you have to believe in yourself.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
Working hard is great being lazy sometimes is great but failed potential is the worst.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit I'll break up with someone on purpose.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now unfortunately it's a national disgrace. Sometimes the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Sometimes I'm so tired I look down at what I'm wearing and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down and I'm like 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup that's fine. It's pajama-y good night.'
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good bad it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good more good would happen.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.
To kill an error is as good a service as and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Those disputing contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes but they never get good will which would be of more use to them.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
God not only plays dice but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.