Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
I'm generally happy, although my kids and wife may sometimes argue with that.
Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.
Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don't think we hurt anyone else's marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they're fine
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say.
