quotes about being happy again

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb



Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss



The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft



Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. ~Lemony Snicket



Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler



By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown



Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Mere



Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks



When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like. ~Author Unknown



Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980



All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ~Benjamin Franklin



A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~Karen Lamb



Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. ~Bill Fitch



Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. ~Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962



Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner



I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~"The Mission," Chapter 8



She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of plain good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, about the character Mag Wildwood