All gloom is but a dream and a shadow… cheerfulness is the real truth. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)

All gloom is but a dream and a shadow… cheerfulness is the real truth. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. Oliver Goldsmith (circa 1728 – 1774)
To pursue trifles is the lot of humanity; and whether we bustle in a pantomime or strut at a coronation, whether we shout at a bonfire or harangue in a senate-house — whatever object we follow, it will at last surely conduct us to futility and disappointment. Oliver Goldsmith (circa 1728 – 1774)
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Oliver Goldsmith (circa 1728 – 1774)
Every man has within himself a continent of undiscovered character. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance we meet. William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort. Mencius (circa 372 – 289 B.C.E.)
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)