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


Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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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.
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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.
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CHERYL RUSHTON On long marriages. He tries to make me happy, and I let him.
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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.
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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.
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA As long as he's happy, I'm happy,
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FREDERIC CHOPIN Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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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.
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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.
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MARK TWAIN Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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.
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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.
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JEAN PRAHM So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right
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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 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
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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 Call no man happy until he is dead.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
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