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.