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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." »Albert Einstein
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"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." »Albert Einstein
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"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion." »Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty
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"happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." »John Dryden
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"happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." »John Dryden
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"To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy." »Euripides
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"The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung." »Prof. F. A. P. Aveling
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"Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song." »Ripley D. Saunders
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"“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present - we just have to choose to be happy."" »Steve Maraboli
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"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention." »E. F. Benson
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"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given." »Sue Grafton
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"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
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"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true." »Sidney Madwed
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"At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, "I was always happy". Hopefully we will be able to say, "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments."" »Barbara DeAngelis
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"Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"If you're pretty happy, but you have a little Chihuahua that's always biting you on the ankles, still that's pretty good isn't it I'm going to go ahead and keep you in the 'happy' category." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." »Horace
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"If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death." »Leonardo Da Vinci
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." »Leonardo DaVinci
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