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QUOTATIONS ON HAPPINESS
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"In Jerusalem Talmud it is written, ?A person will be called to account on
judgement day for every permissible thing that he might have enjoyed but did
not.??Jerusalem Talmud
?If anything is sacred the human body is sacred??Walt Whitman
?Dark is the night, and fitful and drearily
Rushes the wind, like the waves of the sea!
Little care I, as here I sit cheerily,
Wife at my side and my baby on knee:
King, king, crown me the king:
Home is the kingdom and love is the king!??William Rankin Duryea
?I have found the happiness of parenthood greater than any other that I have
experienced.??Bertrand Russell
?Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that hast surviv?d the Fall!??Cowper
?The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday,
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play ?
Among the hushing of the corn,
Where drowsy poppies nod,
Where ill thoughts die and good are born?
Out in the fields of God.??Anon
?Society, saith the text, is the happiness of life.??Shakespeare
"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of
all sources of personal happiness.??Bertrand Russell
"The world is so full of a number of things; I am sure we should all be as happy
as kings."?Stevenson
?If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth
with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation
there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. But now the silent
succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most, only the cessation of the
miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God?s power seems less
wonderful than its withdrawal would be.??Longfellow
?The sexual spasm is the most physically pleasurable human event??Lionel Tiger
?Joy in sex is experienced only when physical intimacy is at the same time the
intimacy of loving.??Erich Fromm, M.D.
?You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and
the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a
book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking,
playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink??G.K. Chesterton
?The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible, and
let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as
possible friendly rather than hostile.??Bertrand Russell
?One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success? ?Emerson
?The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it
is overestimated??H.L. Mencken
?Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you
didn?t have it and thought of other things if you did.? ?James Baldwin
"I?d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck? ?Emma Goldman
?Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.??Old
Eskimo saying
?Life is now in session. Are you present???B. Copeland
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