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You're only as happy as your least happy child. -- Joe Paterno
An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. -- Joni Mitchell
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers. -- Piers Anthony
In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child, -- L. Frank Baum
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge. -- Christopher Moore
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted. -- Stefan Molyneux
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. -- P. T. Barnum
A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible. -- Simon Soloveychik
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize. -- Emo Philips
Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself. -- Stella Adler
"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy. -- L. Frank Baum
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons -- Dave Eggers
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about. -- Shane Filan
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse. -- Laurie Colwin
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child. -- Arnaud Desjardins
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. -- Albert Einstein
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves. -- Helen Keller
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it. -- Patti Smith
Happy, calm children learn best -- Daniel Goleman
Dispel not, the happy delusions of children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My business is making people, especially children, happy. -- Walt Disney
I want my ex-wife and children to be happy. -- Scott Weiland
Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy. -- Marianne Williamson
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. -- Og Mandino
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. -- Oscar Wilde
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. -- Glen Duncan
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. -- Ogden Nash
If I have children, after school they'll always feel happy energy in the home. -- Li Na
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. -- Ogden Nash
I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children. -- Melinda Gates
They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter. -- Sara Gruen
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine. -- Dennis Prager
Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty. -- William John Locke
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. -- Mark Haddon
I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy. -- Ricky Martin
I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life. -- Sadie Frost
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? -- Samuel Johnson
I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do! -- Chevy Chase
Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. -- W. H. Auden
When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. -- Emmanuelle Beart
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. -- Craig Brown
Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. -- Laura Lippman
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow -- Thomas Bray
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. -- Peter Block
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. -- Marianne Williamson
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. -- Beverly Cleary
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage. -- Cindy Gallop
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies. -- Jane Fonda
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom. -- Helen Mirren
God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'. -- Jim Gaffigan
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. -- Simon Callow
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. -- Nora Ephron
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. -- Victor Hugo
What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives? -- David Suzuki
Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives. -- Anne Ford
My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children. -- Walt Disney
I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children. -- Maureen Johnson
What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life. -- Michael Sandel
I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal. -- Natalie Maines
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. -- Mary McCarthy
I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy. -- Jason Momoa
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within. -- Neale Donald Walsch
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals. -- Gregory Maguire
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. -- Thomas Mann
The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping. -- Lucy Larcom
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there. -- Beck Bennett
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy. -- Walter Dean Myers
To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family. -- Patricia P. Pinegar
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy. -- K. A. Applegate
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity. -- Boyd K. Packer
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children. -- Renzo Piano
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. -- Abraham Lincoln
Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience. -- Stacy Keach
If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch. -- Brenda Ueland
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults -- Bobby McFerrin
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults. -- Bobby McFerrin
The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies. -- David A. Bednar
I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want. -- Joan Collins
I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching. -- Anders Holm

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