Took Heart Quote by Herman Melville

“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness…

— Evan S. Connell

“I took comfort in doing without because I knew it was all for the greater good. We all made great sacrifices, none more so…

— Megan McCafferty

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of…

— Graham Greene

“Happiness came in short bursts that were almost always followed by sorrow. His”

— Lexi Blake

“Man only notices his sorrows; he takes his happiness for granted.”

— Dostoyevsky Fyodor

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and…

— Howard Fast

“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).”

— Jack Kerouac