Happy Quotes
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I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.
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He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.
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When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.
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The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.
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I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
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Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?' 'What harm is there?' said the giant.
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Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
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There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.
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I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
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I liked school. I was happy enough there, I think.
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I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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I am so happy and grateful now - that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis.
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I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.
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I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
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I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
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I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.
