“In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."”
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Happy Quotes — page 220 of 349
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“Appearances have very little to do with happiness.”
“The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.”
“I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'”
“I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?”
“Every thing new is fine.”
“The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.”
“The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.”
“I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.”
“If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come.”
“There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.”
“Madame Bovary is myself.”
“I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.”
“How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.”
“Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.”
“Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.”
“In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.”
“The world's a better place since I chose music.”
“Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.”