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- My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
- A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
- Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Social Studies (1981)
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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