Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Maxim Gorky, (Mar 28 1868-1936), Russian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist; He is considered the father of Soviet literature and founder of Soviet Realism; wrote The Lower Depths, 1902.