Time Magazine, January 17, 2005

Mind & Body, Happiness

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Odes to Joy

Robert Frost: "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Charles Schulz: "Happiness is a warm puppy."

Ernest Hemingway: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest think I know."

Marcel Proust: "Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."

Helen Keller: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Euripides: "Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

Mark Twain: "Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant."

Ingrid Bergman: "Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Edith Wharton: "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."

Benjamin Franklin: "Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Moliere: "Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs."

Bertrand Russell: "The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

Robert Louis Stevenson: "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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