happiness

"I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."

"Economy in pleasure is not to my taste."

"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be."

"Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden."

"The gladsome light of jurisprudence."

"And when I compare with these pangs of remorse the feelings which must accompany my honorable friend from this house to his home, after the vote of this night shall have accomplished the object of his…"

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

"After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer them by …"

"James Joyce Foundation"

"The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods."

"Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder, which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."

"Delighted and frankly amazed that Diana is prepared to take me on."

"Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within."

"Ectophiles' Guide to Happy Rhodes"

"Last words: "Peace! Joy!"

"Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it."

"The question is not merely what we can feel, but what we can do for Christ; not how many tears we can shed, but how many sins we can mortify; not what raptures we can experience, but what self-denial …"

"That conversation may answer the ends for which it was designed, the parties who are to join in it must come together with a determined resolution to please and to be pleased. If a man feels that an e…"

"What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our h…"

"Meta-Dadaist... fulfilled certain ideas of ours, notably the idea of motion."