The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.
You are a slave of what you need in your soul.
A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.