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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

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Charles Caleb Colton
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Category: Happiness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age your experience your psychological and spiritual need.
  • 2. After thirty a body has a mind of its own.
  • 3. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

2 Amazing

  • 1. United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea what a rare thing that was… to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
  • 2. It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.
  • 3. I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

3 Anger

  • 1. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
  • 2. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice ambition envy anger and pride if these were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
  • 3. One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 2. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 3. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 2. In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.
  • 3. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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