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You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#dionysus #gladiator #pac-man #percy-jackson #pinochle

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy ↗

— John Irving

#happiness #woman #women #men

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#unhappiness #men

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. ↗

— P.D. James

#love #protection #responsibility #self-sufficiency #solitude

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#happiness #happy #joy #pain #relief

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#purpose #men

Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence. ↗

— Boethius

#good #happiness #men

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. ↗

— G.A. Henty

#men #respect #slave #men

Why do women get more hurt than men? Because men use their brain whereas women use their heart to make a decision. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#happiness #human #smile #men

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive? ↗

— Mandy Hale

#happiness #happy-life #love #loving-yourself #positive-thinking