“hi I hope u want to be my friends”
“The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.”
“I m perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It s a lot safer.”
“It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.”
“According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.”
“[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.”
“I m happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.”
“Love is like a flower. Its upright when its in harmony and withered when its dead.”
“And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.”
“The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”
“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
“I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen”
“Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind”
“You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.”
“Don t let the cruel make you unkind. And don t let the unkind make you cruel.”
“Here s what I think I m having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I d just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn t tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you re so glad it s not worse.”
“When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.”