A Quote by Samuel Smiles

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Scottish - Author
December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

Samuel Smiles

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

Lydia M. Child

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

P. J. O'Rourke

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Samuel Johnson

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

Natalie Portman

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

Stuart Duncan

When you are on the bright side of life, do not forget the people who are on the dark side and remember that man can easily slip from one side to the other!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.

Joyce Meyer

Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.

Jenny Lewis

From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

Van Morrison

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Allen Klein

We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

Dawn Steel

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.