Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
I remember just weeping my way through the 'Friday Night Lights' finale with my best friend and just being so happy all the way through because it was so beautiful.
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.
Acting is happy agony.
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.
You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.
That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.
I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires, subsidizing bad behavior, should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers.