happiness

"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."

"Happily, His Highness is to-day ruling wisely a contented people and it is sufficient to say that I found in him a kind and considerate Chief and a loyal friend. On young shoulders he carried a head o…"

"I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, Th…"

"It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve …"

"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

"I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated."

"Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real."

"Some credible scholars say that making mass murderers famous motivates other mass murderers. . Elliot Rodger sent his lengthy diatribe to the media before he went on his killing spree -- correctly pre…"

"Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!"

"5037. Three are too many to keep a Secret, and too few to be merry."

"She watched the lights upon the shore. The glare that was Plymouth in the distance. She thought, the dance is over. The girls are going out of the overheated hall into the cold air. They shiver; their…"

"It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

"The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations."

"It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good."

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

"Frankly, I cannot conceive how any thoughtful man can really be happy. There is really nothing in the universe to live for, and unless one can dismiss thought and speculation from his mid, he is liabl…"

"I hate her," I said, and waited for the blow to fall. But Doctor Nolan only smiled at me as if something had pleased her very, very much and said, "I suppose you do."

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

"It's revved for her pleasure."

"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."