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44th President of the United States of America 1961

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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“Play it fuckin' loud!”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“Is there a prince in this fable for a small town girl like me?”

Shakira (1977) Colombian singer

“When we are no longer young we are already dead”

Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) French-Romanian artist

Attributed to Brâncuși in: Rene Dubot So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events. 1998, p. 112

“Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores?”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

Earth Song
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

“Every dream the possibility. ”

Джордж Грегори Плитт (младший) (1977–2015)

“The pain you feel today will be the strenght you feel tomorrow.”

Джордж Грегори Плитт (младший) (1977–2015)

“I will either find a way, or make one.”
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.

Hannibal (-247–-183 BC) military commander of Carthage during the Second Punic War

Latin proverb, most commonly attributed to Hannibal in response to his generals who had declared it impossible to cross the Alps with elephants; English translation as quoted in Salesmanship and Business Efficiency (1922) by James Samuel Knox, p. 27.

“On my Youtube page there are so many haters. They just say crazy stuff. Like, I'm not mad. I'm 16 years old and I don't have chest hair and I'm not angry about it at the moment. That will come. People are like, "Look at him he puts helium in his voice before he sings."”

Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

You just have to laugh at yourself. It's funny.
Interview on The Ellen Show, "Ellen Chats With Justin Bieber", 3 November, 2010

“Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longings of the day.”

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

Source: Longing

“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a "one size fits all" standard for happiness”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009), p.22

“George Bush doesn't care about black people.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Live on NBC’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief“ on September 2 2005

“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”

Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk

As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 279

“It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Variant: You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

“Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, p. 10
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)

“You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“Fame does not define me. If you are looking for fame to define you, then you will never be happy and you’ll always be searching for happiness, and you will never find it in fame. Fulfillment comes from within you, by being authentic to yourself — not chasing fame.”

Cameron Diaz (1972) American actress

Human the movie: Cameron's interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-HvL3TSf-8 ( New York Post http://nypost.com/2015/12/17/cameron-diaz-fame-will-never-make-you-happy/)