quotes about him making me happy

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library? ~Lily Tomlin



The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. ~Carl van Vechten



On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge



Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams



A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming



Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ~Jim Bishop



We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein



The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. ~James Bryce



If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper



One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence



Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996



Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money



But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh



Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce



The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher



The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong. ~Nevin Fenneman



The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke



Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes



The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ~Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849



The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ~Maya Angelou