“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon
“Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.”
Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald
“To be happy for an hour, get drunk; to be happy for a year, fall in love; to be happy for life, take up gardening.”
Chinese proverb (allegedly)
Quotations from last year here.
And the year before here.
Happy birthday from this corner of the world, Simon! And thank you for the good quotes!