Tom Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

  • I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

  • Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

  • Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

  • When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

  • It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

  • It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

  • Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

  • Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

  • In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

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