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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.