“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .”
Happy feeling
Happy Quotes — page 136 of 349
“I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.”
“It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.”
“Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”
“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”
“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.”
“Disneyland is a show.”
“Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.”
“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”
“I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.”
“Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.”
“Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface”
“But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.”
“Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.”
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.”
“Heaven give you many, many merry days.”
“How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!”
“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”
“... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.”
“Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.”