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"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."

Kurt Vonnegut

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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

"love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins"

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

Kurt Vonnegut

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"What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!"

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

"When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is this: "You are not enough people!"

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Kurt Vonnegut

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"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an... Read More "

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

"Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart."

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

"At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing."

Mother Teresa

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The person, be it gentlemen or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably.

"I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness Quotes

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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

Ernest Miller Hemingway

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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

"love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins"

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

"What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!"

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

"When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is this: "You are not enough people!"

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an... Read More "

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

"Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart."

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

"At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing."

The person, be it gentlemen or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably.

"I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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