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I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

It's very hard to get the dynamics where two people can stimulate each other and be happy.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long I'm happy.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

If you pray enough for things I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work sunshine exercise soap plenty of fresh air and a happy contented spirit.

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there and you're being compensated accordingly and your work satisfies you you should stay there.

The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

As women we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy mostly black women.