Happy Playgrounds Quotes

I'd hate to read all these books ... that much reading could put your eyes out. ~ Larry McMurtry

Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another. ~ William H Gass

Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls. ~ B. Traven

so whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and god. blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ~ Paul From Tarsus

Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it. ~ Richard Russo

mead for my men! ~ Donald Barthelme

Do you want me to shoot thee, ingles? ... quieres? it is nothing. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself ~ John Barth

When you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute. ~ Elmore Leonard

Sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt. ~ William Faulkner

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable. ~ Fernando Pessoa

god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word. ~ Richard Farina

we mistake induction for generation. ~ Richard Farina

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer ~ James Rollins

Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not. ~ Daniel Woodrell

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know. ~ Jim Dodge

Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult. ~ Charles Willeford

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days. ~ Jim Dodge

It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. ~ William H Gass

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. ~ Donald Barthelme

Alternate the theories you entertain about all things. ~ Padgett Powell

In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador. ~ Padgett Powell

we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn. ~ Peter Nadas

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years. ~ Jim Dodge

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. ~ Mark Leyner

The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world. ~ Padgett Powell

If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one. ~ David Markson

Don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right. ~ William Gay

my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures. ~ Peter Nadas

Today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything. ~ Padgett Powell

The zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different.
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men ~ Padgett Powell

they are mystified by certain instances. ~ William Carlos Williams

Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love. ~ Ann Marie Aguilar

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things. ~ James Taylor

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or maybe it was the other way around: When there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, "When I grow up, I am going to be happy. ~ Guus Kuijer

If there were two doors, one labeled, Door to Happiness, and the other labeled, Committee to Study How to be Happy, most of us would attend the committee meeting. ~ David W. Earle

Women are like that nowadays, never happy unless they're dancing or gambling. ~ Agatha Christie

To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy. ~ Margaret Heffernan

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him. ~ Amy Engel

We don't have to change our lives overnight or put pressure on ourselves to be happy right now or tomorrow. We can just let inspiration easily give us moments of relief until they are bountiful. ~ Elaina Marie

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows. ~ Beck

The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard. ~ Chelsea Leyland

Happy Thanksgiving," he says, handing me my ticket. "Let's see some dead people. ~ Stephanie Perkins

What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live. ~ Sarah Steele

what is not true does not exist in this moment. ~ Bert McCoy

Am I happy? If you asked me this, I'd have to say, 'Yeah, I guess.' Because dreams are, after all, just that: dreams. ~ Haruki Murakami

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy. ~ Holly Black

When she didn't continue, he shrugged. Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you.
Makes me happy ~ J.R. Ward

There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life. ~ Charlotte Bronte

Dear patient (first name, last name)! You are presently located in our experimental state hospital. The measures taken to save your life were drastic, extremely drastic (circle one). Our finest surgeons, availing themselves of the very latest achievements of modern medicine, performed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten operations (circle one) on you. They were forced, acting wholly in your interest to replace certain parts of your organism with parts obtained from other persons, in strict accordance with Federal Law (Rev. Stat. Comm. 1-989/0-001/89/1). The notice you are now reading was thoughtfully prepared in order to help you make the best possible adjustment to these new if somewhat unexpected circumstances in your life, which, we hasten to remind you, we have saved. Although it was found necessary to remove your arms, legs, spine, skill, lungs, stomach, kidneys, liver, other (circle one or more), rest assured that these mortal remains were disposed of in a manner fully in keeping with the dictates of your religion; they were, with the proper ritual, interred, embalmed, mummified, buried at sea, cremated with the ashes scattered in the wind - preserved in an urn - thrown in the garbage (circle one). The new form in which you will henceforth lead a happy and healthy existence may possibly occasion you some surprise, but we promise that in time you will become, as indeed all our dear patients do, quite accustomed to it We have supplemented your organi ~ Stanisław Lem

And so you were in here, chatting with God?"

Bruce stared at her face, studying her features in minute detail. His voice dropped to a soft, velvety whisper. "I wanted to thank Him for my many blessings."

The burning of her eyes increased. She would not cry like some ninny just because Bruce was happy. He was a devout and wonderful person who always looked to the bright side. Knowing that prompted her to say, "You're such a good man, Bruce."

"I'm a fortunate man, in many, many ways." He made a grand gesture toward the glass blocks. "It's a beautiful, sunny day, and my very own church is almost complete."

"It is shaping up. Everyone will like it."

His thumb moved to her bottom lip with a teasing, gentle touch. "Good friends surround me, and I enjoy good health."

"All things you deserve."

He smiled. "And I've been given the greatest gift of all."

"What's that?"

He laughed, tweaked her chin. "You."

"Me?"

He slowly nodded. "God's given me a lot. But best of all, He's given me you." He took her mouth in a long, toe-curling, stomach-tightening kiss, and in a husky rumble: "I'll be thinking Him every day for the rest of my life."

-Bruce and Cyn ~ Lori Foster

Throughout the month of May, every night, in that poor, wild garden, under that shrubbery, each day, more perfumed and dense, two human beings composed of every chastity and every innocence, every flowing with all the felicities of Heaven, closer to archangels than men, pure, honest, intoxicated, radiant, glowed for each other in the darkness. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette had a halo. They touched, they gazed at each other, they clasped hands, they pressed close together, but there was a distance they did not pass. Not that they respected it; they were ignorant of it. Marius felt a barrier, Cosette's purity, and Cosette felt a support, Marius' loyalty. The first kiss was also the last. Since then, Marius had not gone beyond touching Cosette's hand, or her scarf, or her curls, with his lips. Cosette was to him a perfume, not a woman. He breathed her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was happy, and Marius was satisfied. They were living in that ravishing condition that might be called the dazzling of one soul by another. It was that ineffable first embrace of two virginities within the ideal. Two swans meeting on the Jung Frau. ~ Victor Hugo

Wretched am I, says one, that this has befallen me. Nay, say you, happy I, who, tho' this has befallen me, can still remain without sorrow, neither broken by the present, nor dreading the future. The like might have befallen any one; but every one could not have remained thus undejected. Why should the event be called a misfortune, rather than this strength of mind a felicity? But, can you call that a misfortune, to a man, which does not frustrate the intention of his nature? Can that frustrate the intention of it, or hinder it to attain its end, which is not contrary to the will or purpose of his nature; What is this will or purpose? Sure you have learned it. Doth this event hinder you to be just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent, cautious of rash assent, free from error, possessed of a sense of honour and modesty, and of true liberty; or from meriting those other characters, which whoever enjoys, hath all his nature requires, as its proper perfection? And then, upon every occasion of sorrow, remember the maxim, that this event is not a misfortune, but the bearing it courageously is a great felicity. ~ Marcus Aurelius

You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, and now I could not break my promise if I would. The treasure will be no more mine than yours, and neither of us will quit this prison. But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the somber rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all of their philological ramifications. These different sciences that you have made so easy to me by the depth of the knowledge you possess of them, and the clearness of the principles to which you have reduced them – this is my treasure, my beloved friend, and with this you have made me rich and happy. Believe me, and take comfort, this is better for me than tons of gold and cases of diamonds, even were they not as problematical as the clouds we see in the morning floating over the sea, which we take for terra firma, and which evaporate and vanish as we draw near to them. To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech, -- which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free, -- so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the ~ Alexandre Dumas

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California. ~ Ashton Kutcher

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government. ~ Ted Cruz

She'll still be a happy, loved ~ Soraya Lane

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is a happy journey ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do. ~ Cassie Mae

I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that. ~ Taylor Swift

The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited. ~ Lily Collins

It was the usual noontime university scene, but as I sat watching it with renewed attention, I became aware of a certain fact. In his or her own way, each person I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon at the end of September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness that was new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene. Come to think of it, what scene had I been part of in recent years? ~ Haruki Murakami

All i care about is giving you the happy ever after you want. In our own messy, complicated way. ~ Lucy Dillon

After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid. ~ Stephen Richards

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet. ~ Honore De Balzac

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are. ~ Ariana Grande

Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and joy are not necessarily synonymous. We believe we can experience inner joy with no special external stimulus to make us happy. ~ George Foster

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there. ~ Sanjeev Bhaskar

Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit. ~ Anne McCaffrey

And that's my problem. I love to be alone and hate being around people, but I love to be with people and hate being alone. I don't know what I like and I don't know what I want. Time is a difficult thing. It moves too slowly and speeds up when you finally wish it would slow down or stop. You get to the aftermath and all you have are your memories. Precious memories. The kind that make you smile and laugh like you're living it again, while a nostalgic tear falls. And then another. And then another, until you want to just forget it all to stop the painfully happy memories because at the end of the day, those - not the sad ones - are the memories that hurt us most. ~ Caitlyn Paige

My arm reaches up. I don't know if I'm reaching for the pipe or for him. I want to touch his skin. I want to breathe in what he breathes. The yellow swirl. I want to be the yellow swirl. I want him to breathe me in, be sent riding on oxygen molecules deep into lungs. I want to travel through his body, seeing what makes him happy, attaching myself to whatever place in him sparks to life on my arrival. His blood. His tissues. His muscles. I want to burrow inside the folds like a wind-blown dusting of snow so that each time I melt away, he seeks me out again. There's no delineation between the pipe and the smoke and his body. It's all whole, I want in. I want him.
'Please,' I say softly, 'let me try.'
Without letting go of the pipe, he swings his hand holding the lighter with incredible force, backhanding my face. My jaw pops. The lighter swings back under the pipe undulating back and forth, inhaling the curl as it rises from the tar, exactly the same as before he hit me, only now he's staring at me, hating me. ~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything. ~ Jane Austen

A happy childhood is hard to overcome. ~ Marty Rubin

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~ C.P. Snow

I don't know, I think I can make you pretty happy." He leaned close, whispering directly into her ear, "Especially when I'm between your thighs." A ~ Jennifer Bene

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it! ~ Liz Phair

When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts. ~ Uzo Aduba