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- Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy.
- John Mayer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 05-14-12
- When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
- Charles Buxton
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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