Participants noted that a stillbirth steals happiness from a family and may cause social disintegration or separation, even if followed by a live birth.
Styron's sharp literary instincts enable her to avoid being boring, as self-pitying people are, but occasionally, as when she blurts out that she was "too old to let him steal my happiness," the reader may feel that the emotion would have been more forcefully conveyed without the foot-stamping.
He will no longer have the power to steal our happiness or joy.
"THANK YOU, YOU ARE MY HERO," Biles wrote to Aquilina and added to her fellow survivors: "He will no longer have the power to steal our happiness or joy.
I was actively choosing to fight my fears effectively, rather than giving in to the deadly disorder that ruled my life and stole my happiness for far too long.
I'm scared they steal away our happiness like they did yesterday".
Meanwhile, between making meals for her husband, Arvo Andres Tabunn), and meticulously attending to her comatose son, Elsa finds stolen seconds of happiness with her bashful lover, Aarne (Andres Noormets), and eavesdrops in on Lauri's many visitors. .
As well as the stuff that had quickly congealed into cliche ("Be realistic, demand the impossible"), there were endless examples at once audacious and seductive: "They are buying your happiness - steal it back"; "The alarm clock rings - first humiliation of the day"; "You will all finish up dying from comfort"; and, perhaps most presciently, "Forests came before men - the desert comes afterwards".
And that's what stealing does: it makes it impossible for other people to pursue their own happiness.
Opportunities: Stealing Time 13 October 2006 No matter where you end up professionally, your effectiveness (and your personal happiness) will depend in large part on your ability to manage your time successfully.
