I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference read more

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop read more

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.