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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
On its self-titled debut, Happy Birthday flirts with several flavors of love, and 'Girls FM' is where taste gets confusing.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.
Cryptic messages and abstract statements are littered throughout the music of Happy Birthday, but it hasn't made the band's sun-baked pop-rock any less infectious.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'
I was never the kind to throw parties for my birthday. I remember how embarrassed I used to be when they'd make me cut a cake on the sets, and the unit would sing 'Happy Birthday.'
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.