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Birthday Quotes

Birthday quotes here lean towards reflection rather than celebration. The page is built from the pages on age, time, friendship and happiness, and Shakespeare has the most entries, then Byron, Edward Young and Longfellow.

That is useful if you want something thoughtful for a milestone birthday and less so for a card with balloons on it. The funny ones are on the Funny page. A warning on the friendship quotes: “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” is not from Sun Tzu, and “Time flies like an arrow” was not said by Groucho Marx. Both are flagged here.

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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

You can allow any real—or merely perceived—flaw to diminish your happiness.

Dennis Prager Happiness is a Serious Problem:A Human Nature Repair Manual (1998)

One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.

Elton Mayo Edward William Bok (1947)

I always value quality over quantity and keep a few very trustworthy friends and mentors who I share all my ups and downs with while on the go.

Jessica Minh Anh Jessica Minh Anh (2018)

True happiness can only be found in the paths of virtue.

Nikolay Karamzin

In the Jail, there is a Government supplied radio, and I hear music and news occasionally. My time, however, passes in my pastime; I live by myself, alone.

Hyder Bux Jatoi

Your heart should not fret over this. [...] Let your heart be glad over.

Ishbi-Erra

Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.

Joseph Smith Jr.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Christopher Reeve

Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

Arthur Miller The Crucible (1953)

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

Marcel Proust Preface (1910)

What I look for in a friend is someone who's different from me. The more different the person is, the more I'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.

Samuel R. Delany The Mad Man (1994)

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven (1993)

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos (1994)

I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.

Cary Grant

Jim [Coleman, his defense attorney] and Fred [Lawrence, his minister], I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends.

Ted Bundy

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.

Amit Ray Walking the Path of Compassion (2015)

I came to this world (as a ) stranger, I am tried of this land.
The time has come that I break this trap of enslavement.

Yunus Emre

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

Francis Bacon

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Buckminster Fuller Critical Path (1981)

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