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- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
- Anonymous
- I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
- Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
- 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.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
- I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
- Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
- Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
- No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
- Unknown
- Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
- Phyllis McGinley
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