happiness

"Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy..."

"A mind content both crown and kingdom is."

"Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product."

"I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying …"

"God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin.…"

"'Dada Dance: Sophie Taeuber’s Visceral Abstraction', Nell Andrew, 3 July, 2014 / Archive, Highlighted Content"

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

"My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter."

"Do not seek pleasure for its own sake."

"...undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by anything that happ…"

"Happiness was each individual's supreme object; the greatest happiness of the greatest number was plainly the aim of society"

"Wow, look at all the places you can park,” he said, as if for all these years he had been cruising endlessly, unable to terminate a journey. For about a year the most dangerous place to drive in Des M…"

"Let us meditate on the love of God, who being supremely happy Himself, communicateth perfect happiness to us. Supreme happiness doth not make God forget us; shall the miserable comforts of this life m…"

"Joy Harjo: Poems and Profile at Poets.org"

"Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn’t sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that."

"T' explains the previous success of T, that is, all the unrefuted content of T is included in the content of T'; and"

"The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused them to forget even the sacred duties of gratitude. Observe them, for example, grouping together the lofty deeds…"

"Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?"

"Serve the Lord joyfully!"

"I was happy, but I am now in possession of knowledge that this is wrong. Happiness isn't so bad for a woman. She gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little …"