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| Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness you send out for it. -- Rex Reed | |
| In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it. -- Rex Reed | |
| We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...] I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...] "Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget. "I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee." The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day. -- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition | |
| Happiness is a hard disk. | |
| Happiness is twin floppies. | |
| May the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits. | |
| Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. | |
| Happiness is the greatest good. | |
| If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry. -- Chinese proverb | |
| Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you. | |
| Stop searching forever. Happiness is unattainable. | |
| Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you. Now, if they'd only take a bath ... | |
| Your good nature will bring you unbounded happiness. | |
| Your good nature will bring unbounded happiness. | |
| Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" | |
| Happiness, n.: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" | |
| love, n.: When, if asked to choose between your lover and happiness, you'd skip happiness in a heartbeat. | |
| Lessness: A philosophy whereby one reconciles oneself with diminishing expectations of material wealth: "I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho." -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
| African violet: Such worth is rare Apple blossom: Preference Bachelor's button: Celibacy Bay leaf: I change but in death Camelia: Reflected loveliness Chrysanthemum, red: I love Chrysanthemum, white: Truth Chrysanthemum, other: Slighted love Clover: Be mine Crocus: Abuse not Daffodil: Innocence Forget-me-not: True love Fuchsia: Fast Gardenia: Secret, untold love Honeysuckle: Bonds of love Ivy: Friendship, fidelity, marriage Jasmine: Amiablity, transports of joy, sensuality Leaves (dead): Melancholy Lilac: Youthful innocence Lilly: Purity, sweetness Lilly of the valley: Return of happiness Magnolia: Dignity, perseverance * An upside-down blossom reverses the meaning. | |
| Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. | |
| It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. -- Kim Hubbard | |
| All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin. -- Lord Byron | |
| There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. -- Euripides | |
| Domestic happiness and faithful friends. | |
| You had some happiness once, but your parents moved away, and you had to leave it behind. | |
| You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends. | |
| Your nature demands love and your happiness depends on it. | |
| The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last. -- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6 | |
| A MODERN FABLE Aesop's fables and other traditional children's stories involve allegory far too subtle for the youth of today. Children need an updated message with contemporary circumstance and plot line, and short enough to suit today's minute attention span. The Troubled Aardvark Once upon a time, there was an aardvark whose only pleasure in life was driving from his suburban bungalow to his job at a large brokerage house in his brand new 4x4. He hated his manipulative boss, his conniving and unethical co-workers, his greedy wife, and his snivelling, spoiled children. One day, the aardvark reflected on the meaning of his life and his career and on the unchecked, catastrophic decline of his nation, its pathetic excuse for leadership, and the complete ineffectiveness of any personal effort he could make to change the status quo. Overcome by a wave of utter depression and self-doubt, he decided to take the only course of action that would bring him greater comfort and happiness: he drove to the mall and bought imported consumer electronics goods. MORAL OF THE STORY: Invest in foreign consumer electronics manufacturers. -- Tom Annau | |
| For perfect happiness, remember two things: (1) Be content with what you've got. (2) Be sure you've got plenty. | |
| Some don't prefer the pursuit of happiness to the happiness of pursuit. | |
| Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. | |
| Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. | |
| The secret of happiness is total disregard of everybody. | |
| This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply. -- Lazarus Long | |
| You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness. -- Goethe | |
| He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is not respected. He who boasts achieves nothing. He who brags will not endure. According to followers of the Tao, "These are extra food and unnecessary luggage." They do not bring happiness. therefore followers of the Tao avoid them. | |
| All men will come to him who keeps to the one, For there lie rest and happiness and peace. Passersby may stop for music and good food, But a description of the Tao Seems without substance or flavor. It cannot be seen, it cannot be heard, And yet it cannot be exhausted. | |
| When the country is ruled with a light hand The people are simple. When the country is ruled with severity, The people are cunning. Happiness is rooted in misery. Misery lurks beneath happiness. Who knows what the future holds? There is no honesty. Honesty becomes dishonest. Goodness becomes witchcraft. Man's bewitchment lasts for a long time. Therefore the sage is sharp but not cutting, Pointed but not piercing, Straightforward but not unrestrained, Brilliant but not blinding. | |
| Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. | |
| Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have. | |
| Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Oscar Levant | |
| If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. -- Richard Bach, "Illusions" | |
| The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the world is slow, gradual and stupid. Whoever could feel the course of a light ray would be very happy, for it is very swift. Thinking of oneself gives little happiness. If, however, one feels much happiness in this, it is because at bottom one is not thinking of oneself but of one's ideal. This is far, and only the swift shall reach it and are delighted. -- Nietzsche | |
| To give happiness is to deserve happiness. | |
| Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life. | |
| Happiness is a positive cash flow. | |
| If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it. | |
| Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it. | |
| Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. -- C.B. Luce | |
| While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. | |
| True happiness will be found only in true love. | |
| Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman | |
