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... no one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted,... More
... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and... More
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for... More
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy.... More
... woman was made first for her own happiness, with the absolute right to herself ... we deny... More
... you have to have been desperately unhappy before you can play comedy, so that nothing can... More
...I never thought of anything but a long full life with my love, but a heavy foreboding hit me... More
...what a thing it is to lie there all day in the fine breeze, with the pine needles dropping on... More
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man’s life. More
A boy’s hunched body loved out of a stalk
The first song of his happiness, and the song... More
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the... More
A cripple or blind they will ca’ me,
While we shall be merry and sing.’ More
A good education is another name for happiness. More
A good story is one that isn’t demanding, that proceeds from A to B, and above all doesn’t... More
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. More
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity.... More
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in... More
After bitterness comes the sweet. More
Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade!
Ah fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless... More
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us,—the height of station and worldly... More
All his happier dreams came true
A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
Grounds where... More
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they... More
All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in... More
And born hym weel, as of so litel space,
In hope to stonden in his lady grace.
Embrouded... More
And I looked to be happy, and I was,
As I said, for a while but I don’t know!
Somehow... More
And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear... More
And like a prophetess of May
Strew’d flowers upon the barren way,
Making the wintry... More
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to... More
And thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys, More
And though I know the fellow, I have spent
Long time a-wondering when I shall be
As happy... More
And what do I care if she marries another? every other night I dream of her dresses and things on... More
As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them. More
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their... More
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. More
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as... More
Beautiful women lead happy lives. More
Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy... More
Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. More
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very Heaven! More
Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but—happiness. More
But does not happiness come from the soul within? More
But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of... More
But how irrelevantly
the absurd angel of happiness walks in.... More
But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea. More
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. More
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our... More
Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent. More
Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum... More
Clownlike, happiest on your hands
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. More
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or... More
Continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to... More
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. More
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be... More
Did ye not hear it?—No; ‘twas but the wind,
Or the car rattling o’er the stony... More
Do not wait for a reason to be happy. More
Doing good is the greatest happiness. More
Earth and I gave you turquoise
when you walked singing
We lived laughing in my... More
Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend... More
Eten and drounken and maden hem glad; More
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. More
Even now she does the snake-hips with a hiss,
Slops the bad wine across her shantung,... More
Every time I get happy
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber’s... More
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. More
Extreme happiness begets tragedy. More
For an instant I see the sky, the different skies, then they turn to faces, agonies, loves, the... More
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. More
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time,... More
For what is wedlock forcèd, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas... More
Forget your troubles and just get happy. More
Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. More
Gaiety—a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. More
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s... More
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. More
Happiness ain’t a thing in itself—it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t... More
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the... More
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has... More
Happiness does not notice the passing of time. More
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever... More
Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people’s happiness. More
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and... More
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. More
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. More
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. More
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know... More
Happiness is always a coincidence. More
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now... More
Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction. More
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland More
Happiness is often hard-hearted. More
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and... More
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and... More
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the... More
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. More
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. More
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho’ others count me miserable, I... More
Happy thou art not,
For what thou hast not, still thou striv’st to get,
And what thou... More
He could walk, or rather turn about in his little garden, and feel more solid happiness from the... More
He was the finest of our happy men;
He had all joys, he never thought of death;
He... More
He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds. More
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. More

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