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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
- Samuel Johnson
Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
- Washington Irving
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
- Dorothy Sayers
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
- Samuel Johnson
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
- Anonymous
Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.
- JM Coetzee
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
- JM Coetzee
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....
- Jack Kerouac
Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
- Jack Kerouac
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.
- Jack Kerouac
And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.
- Jack Kerouac
But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head
- Jack Kerouac