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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.


Alexander Solzehnitsyn

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doe...
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her
OSCAR WILDE You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
WARD MCALLISTER I am so proud. He would be so happy. This would just make him so happy.
FRANKIE HARRIS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ...
LARRY WILMORE If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flatter...
IDRIES SHAH A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO Any BITCH can get a man, and any GIRL can keep him... But it takes a REAL WOMAN to settle him down, ...
ARACELY ALDAMA For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON On long marriages. He tries to make me happy, and I let him.
CAROL COVIN I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as har...
YANNICK NOAH As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I...
DAN STEVENS So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; ...
BARUCH SPINOZA The Shiites hate him, and so do the Kurds. So if he is convicted, they will be happy.
JEFFREY HART I'm just so happy for him. He is outstanding.
IAN CHESTERMAN When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER Last year he couldn't see another horse coming at him. He came out of that well and I'm as happy as ...
DESSIE HUGHES Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a...
CHARLES SPURGEON With Chris back we have a heavy hitter at safety, and he also adds to us in pass coverage. We missed...
PAUL POSLUSZNY My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so of course I want to stay as long as I can.
DAVID BECKHAM Bo seems happy. If he's happy, I'm happy for him. It's a great organization to be in, especially as ...
JIMMY ROLLINS None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There is a good life. The goodnews is that you can live that good life. The good life is the happy l...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA As long as he's happy, I'm happy,
JOSEPH JACKSON If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy a...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this wo...
FREDERIC CHOPIN Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone t...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a...
BHALCHANDRA To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
HELEN ROWLAND To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH We are so happy to back at the villa, so happy to be looking at the objects on display after so long...
KAROL WIGHT No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
MAX MULLER No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
MAX PLANCK Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can...
JOHN DRYDEN Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the on...
HERODOTUS I'm happy for him. I'm happy he found the place that's best for him. That's all you can ask for.
JODIE MEEKS Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake...
MARK TWAIN Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
DANIEL CUDMORE Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, to...
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, t...
JOHN DRYDEN Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will ...
GOETHE I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
MANNY PACQUIAO Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
SWAMI SIVANANDA He had to think on his feet and he did a great job, ... I am as happy as you can be losing.
CRAIG WILLIAMS God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
MARTIN LUTHER Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
HENRI ROUSSEAU Because of so many people who remembered his birthday, I can now see that he will be successful in w...
FRANCIS ESCUDERO count no man happy until he be dead.
SOLON So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens b...
ITALO CALVINO In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and t...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN It's a shame he had to wait this long, but I'm very happy for him because he damn sure deserves it.
LAWRENCE TAYLOR Sure most of us are 'happy'. Happy when we're shopping or drinking in the pub. Try being happy for j...
CHERYL RUSHTON He was so happy with his son. He told me he was going to teach him to be a plumber. To go to college...
LINDA MORALES He is a player lots of international teams would want. We are very happy to have Michael Owen in our...
SCOTT JOHNSON As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
BILLY WEST I have had a long chat with the vet and although he is very happy with him, we have decided he is no...
NOEL MEADE Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide t...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR Your only goal in life should be to be HAPPY. As long as you are not hurting yourself or anyone else...
ROSA M. BETANCES He's making me look good. I'm the guy blocking for him, so I don't mind. As long as somebody is doin...
HENRY WILLIS The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy f...
SALMA HAYEK The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
HUNG KO The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
HUNG KO We need to come back tomorrow and put two good runs together. This is bobsled, so anything can happe...
JEAN PRAHM So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right
CHINESE PROVERBS We were certainly not happy with the situation. We are happy the Baptist Student Union is working wi...
CURTISS LONG I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
MARILYN MONROE I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
KENAN THOMPSON I think Victor is very excited and he is happy to be fighting so often.
IGOR GOLOUBEV I was impressed he donated his prize money. Joey would be happy if I just said he is a nice man, a g...
YANG YANG The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Less a person can see, more happy he can be
ANUJ SOMANY Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the peop...
ESTHER EARL Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
CASSANDRA CLARE I can appreciate his joy, he achieved a great performance today and I'm happy for him.
BODE MILLER Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it
LORD MANCROFT Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Call no man happy till he is dead.
AESCHYLUS call no man happy until he is dead
HERODOTUS

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ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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