It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗
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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?Originally asked
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Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
My kids are in the house. I’ve been gardening in my vegetable garden. I have absolutely zero obligations or calls to return. Now I’m fixing dinner with music playing and having a glass of wine.
Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
Ungratefulness.
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