I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all
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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings.
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me I am happy.
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He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are.. Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass
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Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.
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Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.
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