Friday, February 13, 2009

This is what it is to be happy.

"If for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy."
--'The Little Prince'

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
--Kurt Vonnegut

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'"
--Sylvia Plath, 'The Bell Jar'

"People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past."
--Nicholas Sparks, 'Nights in Rodanthe'

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