“Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.”
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Happy Quotes — page 177 of 349
“I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.”
“When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.”
“Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.”
“Candy Crowley's hair is PERFECT!!”
“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”
“I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.”
“For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977”
“Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.”
“You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.”
“There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.”
“It's a great time to be alive.”
“It would be pleasant to be drunk.”
“In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.”
“The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?”
“Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.”
“Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.”
“It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).”
“Happiness is the highest good”
“Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.”