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Quotes About Happiness

He had bought into a lie: go to college, get a good education, get a job with a Fortune 500 company, and you'd be happy. He had done all that and he was miserable. He'd gotten out of his father's house only to find another kind of servitude. He decided to start over and do things his own way. He would become an entrepreneur.
~ George Packer
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
~ George Plimpton
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
~ George Plimpton
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
~ George Porter
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
~ George Porter
I loved a maid fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair.
~ George R.R. Martin
I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)
~ George R.R. Martin
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
~ George R.R. Martin
I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I'm flying. We're both laughing, laughing so much that I could hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me.
~ George R.R. Martin
There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.
~ George R.R. Martin
A small victory, he thought, but sweet.
~ George R.R. Martin
The living should smile, for the dead cannot
~ George R.R. Martin
It's sad. He likes it where the wine is, and the smiles.
~ George R.R. Martin
You should think less about the future and more about the pleasures at hand.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robert wanted smiles and cheers, always, so he went where he found them, to his friends and his whores. Robert wanted to be loved. my brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved Sansa?" "Everyone want to be loved." "I see flowering hasn't made you any brighter," said Cersie. "Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is a poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same
~ George R.R. Martin
Dany had no wish to reduce King's Landing to a blackened ruin full of unquiet ghosts. She had supped enough on tears. I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father.
~ George R.R. Martin
My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.
~ George R.R. Martin
Az él?knek mosolyogni kell, hiszen a halottak nem tudnak.
~ George R.R. Martin
It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth.
~ George S. Merriam
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
~ George Sand
There is only one happiness in life to love and to be loved.
~ George Sand
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
~ George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
~ George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness.
~ George Sand