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- In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Newsweek, 04-97, regarding Jerry Falwell's comments
- The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
- Irish Proverb
- Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
- We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
- We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
- No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903), Social Statics, part 4, chapter 30 1851
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