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"If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city."
"A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life."
"Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality."
"I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says."
"Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom."
"I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life."
"But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it."
"You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life."
"I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally."
"We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values."
"Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims."
"What you are looking to create is a positive, happy life: the more you intend that your thoughts are positive and happy, the more that is what you will create."
"A happy life is a life for others."
"To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender."
"the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry."
"Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were."
"May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life."
"A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet."
"I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life."
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find."
