Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)"
Happy Times quotes
Happy Times
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Julia Child
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed."
Lauren Oliver
Author
"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times."
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual Leader
"When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!"
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"Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us."
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"I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world."
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"Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown."
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"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals."
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"The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times."
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