happiness

"Despite of it all, the Negro remains … cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful."

"Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?"

"Pass by us, and forgive us our happiness."

"Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune."

"Vronsky, meanwhile, in spite of the complete realization of what he had so long desired, was not perfectly happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand…"

"Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine."

"We should also do away with the idea that a marriage is a sacrament, and that there is any God who is rendered happy by seeing a husband and wife live together, although the husband gets most of his e…"

"Pleasure of itself is not a vice."

"Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, i…"

"‘External feelings’ refer to physical feelings, feelings of pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain in the various parts of the body. ‘Internal feelings’ refer to the feelings of pain, pleasure,…"

"All at once I loathed her, because she had hurt me. This girl! She had torn up my sonnet by Dowson, she had shown my telegram to everybody in the Columbia Buffet. She had made a fool of me at the beac…"

"..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it."

"Clearness, emphatic clearness, was his highest category of man's thinking power. He delighted always to hear good argument. He would often say, I would like to hear thee argue with him." He said this …"

"Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none."

"Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give."

"If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?"

"850. He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe."

"I just want to be happy, joyous and free."

"The structural tools developed by the profession – hierarchical classifications, facets, thesaural relations, topic maps, the predicates used in ontology – will still be of use, provided that they can…"