“But for life's little defeats and indignities, I would be happy, content and completely average.”

“HAPPY EVER AFTERis a concept I'll never believein. I would be content to samplesome little taste of happinesstoday, tonight, right now. Though I knowwithout a doubt that tomorrowwill come saturated with pain.Life is like that. At leastmy life. And honestly, I cantthink of anyone whose lifeis any different. The pricetag for joy is misery. [...]”

“I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”

“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life.”

“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.”

“I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.”