"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it." ― George Eliot Topic(s): Happiness Tags: happiness, whether More From George Eliot "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart." "We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything." "In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness." More In Happiness "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."― Alfred Lord Tennyson "Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others."― Henry Drummond "The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition."― Nancy Pelosi