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Happiness Quotes (page 121)

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano? Fiona Apple
the great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy. All such philosophies spring from self-importance, and are best corrected by a little astronomy. Bertrand Russell
* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jack Kerouac quote: "The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the..."
The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel. Jack Kerouac
You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.''As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so. Jane Austen
What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly. Charles Dickens
Still the king would have turned away, but Schmendrick touched his arm and leaned near. "It's true, you know," he whispered. "But for him--but for them all--the tale would have worked out quite another way, and who can say that the ending would have been even as happy as this? You must be their king, and you must rule them as kindly as you would a braver and more faithful folk. For they are your fate. Peter S. Beagle
Georges Simenon quote: "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I..."
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. Georges Simenon
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not..."
Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for? Friedrich Nietzsche
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "And sometimes you didn't want to know the en? because how..."
And sometimes you didn't want to know the en? because how could the end be happy? J. R. R. Tolkien
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. Kazuo Ishiguro
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I love a happy ending. They are so rare."
I love a happy ending. They are so rare. Stephenie Meyer
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.' 'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. [...] 'Indeed.' 'Does it work? Are they happier dead?' 'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Neil Gaiman
They're bored with their boring husbands who are workaholics like my dad. They're bored with their boring lives, sick of us kids and all this puberty and rebelling, so they pop pills all day long and shop and watch the soaps, and then when it all starts to fall apart they realize they just want to be happy again, so they go to rehab to clean up their act and then start fresh. Can you relate? Terry McMillan
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days Elias Canetti

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