A Quotes
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“A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate ourselves in humble adoration at His feet, and cry out: "Rabboni! Rabboni!" Then shall we set our hearts, lifted into a new atmosphere, on things above, and reach an actual higher life. We shall know more of what it is to live by Christ, in Christ, for Christ, and with Christ, till we reach the marvelous light around the throne in glory.”
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
“A happy being has clearer and more objective thoughts. But the more we believe in our happiness, the easier it will be to see it.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand”
“A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how miserable he is. It is all joy, it sweetens life, but it does not last. It comes and goes, but when it is active, there is no greater virtue, because it makes one supremely happy.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.”
Source: Queenie: a novel
“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.”
Source: Diana Tempest
“A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.”
“A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.”
“A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.”
Source: Table-talk
“A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.”
“A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw up but other than the banker’s suit forcing its way onto Elise’s face there really wasn’t an appropriate place for it.”
Source: Forlorn Passions
“A happy destiny is not given. It is not inherited, nor is it decreed by the stars. It is built — brick by deliberate brick — with desire, with pain, and with a faith that asks no one's permission.”
“A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story”
“A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.”
“A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.”
Source: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
“A happy ending:
She agreed to love herself deeply.
She was finally the sun of her own life.”
Source: I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction
“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
“A happy face is also a source of happiness!”
“A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.”
Source: Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
“A happy family is but an ealier heaven.”
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
“A happy family wakes up the one who is sleeping without being forced to.”
“A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.”
“A happy genius is the gift of nature.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works
“A happy, healthy life is not the result of meek thinking. Live boldly.”
Source: Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified
“A happy healthy soul; sacred life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.”
“A Happy Heart is a good medicine & a Positive mind works Healing”
“A happy home is heaven.”
“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it”
“A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series
“A happy husband makes a happy home.”
“A happy king makes for a happy kingdom.”
Source: Heartless
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“A happy life is a virtuous life.”
“A happy life is defined by seeking pleasure and enjoyment, whereas a meaningful life is bigger.”
Source: Finding Your G-Spot
“A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.”
“A happy life is navigated by God and anchored by family.”
Source: Killing Love
“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”
Source: The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
“A happy life is to live in harmony with heaven.”
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”
“A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.”
“A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.”
Source: Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
“A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge.”
Source: If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
“A happy love needs to be reciprocated.”