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	Are You Happy?

thisnamecantbetaken

1-7-2008 3:38 AM

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thisnamecantbetaken says:

‘May you walk in beauty’.

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1-7-2008 4:45 AM

Fast T friend

Unhappiness is the
ultimate form of self-indulgence.
Tom
Robbins

Seems as unhappiness is a condition suffered extensively in this modern consumer society.

1-7-2008 6:39 AM

vk2yoc

And all the best of dark and bright, meet in your aspect, and in your eyes.

1-7-2008 7:10 AM

debbyski

The ideals that have lighted my way are Kindness, Beauty and Truth.’

Amen.

1-8-2008 7:00 AM

swampfoxz

Nothing brings happiness as much as a really satisfying bowel movement.

1-8-2008 7:33 AM

debbyski

Swampy!
That was such a guy thing to say. *LOL*

1-8-2008 7:34 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

That depends on if it's yourself... or the cat!! *LOL*

1-9-2008 4:03 AM

syncopath

* There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the
three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else.

PEYTON CONWAY MARCH

1-9-2008 5:38 AM

papananook

"Here an Now, Boys, Here an Now!"
---the Birds in "Island" by Aldous Huxley, a wonderful book!

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