she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity…

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

— Oliver Goldsmith

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her…

— Jane Austen

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire,…

— Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or…

— Jane Austen

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to…

— Jane Austen

“You know you are wealthy when you lose count of the people whose lives you changed for the better.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“People who go through a heavy experience like that are changed men, like it or not,” he said. “They change for the better and…

— Haruki Murakami

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not…

— James Russell Lowell

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He…

— Joe Abercrombie

Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change…

— Chuck Schumer

“No matter who and where you are in life... you absolutely have within you the power to positively change for the better. You always…

— Timothy Pina

“People have to be less internally focused and show more of a desire to help others in order to create change for the better,…

— Germany Kent

“It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can…

— Kelly J. Cogswell

Start believing that things are going to change for the better. Not because you deserve it, but simply because God loves you that much.

— Anonymous

“Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends…

— Liz Murray