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Thu 4 Aug 2016

Contrasting happiness

Posted by PJ under happiness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Happiness ain’t a thing in itself—it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant.”

—Mark Twain, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven

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Tue 5 Jan 2016

Guesting

Posted by PJ under entertainment, happiness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“To entertain a guest is to make yourself responsible for his happiness as long as he is beneath your roof.”

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste”

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Wed 29 Jul 2015

Crazy happy

Posted by PJ under happiness, madness, quote of the day
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“No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those.”

—Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

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Thu 30 Oct 2014

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza

Posted by PJ under endings, happiness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“All happy endings have a leak in them somewhere.”

—Nina Fitzpatrick, Daimons

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Thu 18 Sep 2014

What’s the point?

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, happiness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“How painful it is to dream of happiness. The crushing weight of it all. Better to say nothing and pay attention to everything else.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Mon 25 Aug 2014

Load bearing

Posted by PJ under happiness, quote of the day, suffering
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“Let the coming generation attain happiness; but they surely ought to ask themselves, for what did their ancestors live and for what did they suffer.”

—Anton Chekhov, Note-book of Anton Chekhov, tr. S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf

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Thu 10 Apr 2014

Like a room without a roof

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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

—Russian proverb

(Variously misattributed to Ingrid Bergman, Albert Schweitzer, and even Phil Spector.)

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Tue 12 Nov 2013

As you think

Posted by PJ under happiness, illusion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”

—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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Fri 25 Oct 2013

Make someone happy

Posted by PJ under happiness, joy, meaning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”

—Roger Ebert, quoted in “Roger Ebert: The Essential Man,” Esquire, February 16, 2010

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Thu 7 Mar 2013

Happy man

Posted by PJ under happiness, quote of the day, youth
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“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

—Albert Einstein, “My Future Plans,” an essay written at age 17 for a school exam, Sept. 18, 1896

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