Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
Happiness has a very short half-life.
Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.
