happiness

"I don't care about weight things, but it's more important to me that I'm happy and I feel good. What happens to my body is going to happen and people have to live with that or I'll quit this job."

"Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer."

"I'm so happy to be engaged and look forward to a life of happiness with Liam."

"Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!"

"By far the most valuable things, which we know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful …"

"Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"More positively, taking pleasure in music is the most obvious sign of comprehension, the proof that we understand it, and we may extend that to sympathy with other listeners' enjoyment ..."

"Again that smile of exquisite and self-congratulatory piety."

"DON'T SPEAK! See how fast I can get the smile off your face?"

"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."

"I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, …"

"I have come to associate a kind of success that we are referring to, to individuals who have a combination of attributes that are often associated with creativity. In a way they are mutants, they are …"

"The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence"

"The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots …"

"All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept."

"Have you ever considered the relationship of clinical paranoia to the phenomenon of religious conversion?"

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."

"I came to philosophy finally phrased as "0.8 is enough". … If I had a way to rate happiness, I think it's a good design to have an organism that's happy about 80% of the time. If it was 100% of the ti…"

"The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm."

"People who won't have a TV set in their house get more pleasure from their refusal than most of us get from TV."