happiness

"In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit."

"Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child — that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that…"

"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are suppo…"

"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others."

"lessings ought rightfully to be administered, without distinction of Colour, to all descriptions of People, so they indulge themselves in the pleasing expectation, that nothing, which can be done for …"

"A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon."

"It's always such a pleasure to have Germans enlighten us on the best way to move large groups of sick, downtrodden people by rail. The only motivation I can ascribe to such behavior is that same one t…"

"We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that's when you really experience the joy of painting."

"Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing."

"I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye."

"Discontent goaded the spirit into fresh creation."

"Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present."

"Once, when Nadir was told that there was no war in paradise, he was reported to have asked: "How can there be any delights there?."

"None think the great unhappy but the great."

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

"ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for dark…"

"Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the gov…"

"The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but u…"

"Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure."

"I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord"