happiness

"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."

"I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conce…"

"Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits."

"Meaning is found in relationship. — Meaning is the relationship of the foreground figure to the background."

"The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide."

"Wedding after wedding after wedding and then yours - your wedding? Would that make you what they're now calling happy?"

"Ordinarily the enjoyment of sensual pleasures is the highest and only happiness of the average man. There is no doubt a kind of momentary happiness in the anticipation, gratification and retrospection…"

"A game that makes the player happy is a good thing. Nintendo's goal for 2006 will be "Create new fun". Spread the fun of games to everyone. To do this, we must return to the beginning, to recapture th…"

"'NBC: The George Washington of Bangladesh'"

"It’s too cold. Away from the worlds, where a little pleasure costs a lot of pain. Don’t make trouble."

"Sappho was a worshipper of the Aphrodite cult and on the island of Lesbos there were many cliff-jumpers. They all jumped. Some may say they flew in ecstasy. If only for nine seconds -- one second for …"

"The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in…"

"122. Happy is the monk who views the welfare and progress of all men with as much joy as if it were his own."

"If our age is not distinguished for a greatly increased number of happy marriages and a more intelligent approach to the problems of sex, we may surely assert that some forms of misery in the sexual r…"

"But to-day, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream; it wishes to enjoy physically. The heights and the depths of truth are indifferent t…"

"As far as women are concerned, I am old-fashioned enough to like the idea of a woman's managing the household. This is an important activity. A woman does not have to be a bank vice-president to find …"

"For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness."

"pleasure wouldn’t exist without the sharp bite of pain. Even the brief flash of orgasm is too intense to be absolutely pleasurable"

"I have always found the unhappiness of people attractive, because if not, I would not trust them."

"A new sound in the rainy afternoon. Bobby Terry's head jerked up. The rain, yes, making its steel drum sound on the cabs of the two vehicles, the grumblig of two idling motors, and- A strange clocking…"