This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

Ernest Hemingway · The source reads: “Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.” · A Moveable Feast (1964), last line

If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Ernest Hemingway · Winner Take Nothing (1933), Fathers and Sons

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you're yet to be.

Often credited to Ernest Hemingway · Not Hemingway's; a modern card line that echoes Mary Carolyn Davies's 1918 poem "Love," itself long miscredited to a "Roy Croft."

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.

Nikos Kazantzakis · The source reads: “How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.… All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.” · Zorba the Greek (1946), ch. 7

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

The Bible · The source reads: “The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage.” · Psalm 16:6. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.

We shouldn't just say, "Let me be miserable now, and later I'll be happy." You've got to learn to find the joy all the way through.

Michael Strahan · The source reads: “I was always told "Work hard when you're young so you can enjoy it when you're older." We should really be enjoying it all the way through. We shouldn't just say, "Well, let me be miserable now, and later then I'll be happy." You've got to learn to find the joy all the way.” · The footballer and broadcaster on joy.

“This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.”

“If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you're yet to be.”

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.”

“The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.”

“We shouldn't just say, "Let me be miserable now, and later I'll be happy." You've got to learn to find the joy all the way through.”

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