happiness

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

"Oh, it was work and no fooling. I enjoyed it very much, because I didn’t have to do it."

"Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet."

"The plan by which Nature preserves, regulates and produces her beings, though continually before the eyes of mankind, enters little into their brains or hearts. Authors generally varnish over, or hide…"

"Now the Canucks are down three games to one and come storming back. Courtnall gets the winner in Game 5 as he hammers a rocket in OT. Mikey never had a chance. Are they happy or what? Watch this!"

"“has a discussion there about Great and Little Russia, Ukraine. He says that no one should be allowed to interfere in relations between us; this has always been only Russia’s business."

"Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland — the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures"

"Oswald Cabal: Little animals. And if we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live, and suffer, and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have …"

"We shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in He…"

"Forget what hurt you, it's a recipe for youth, health and happiness ..."

"My happy disposition completely changed after Mamma's death. I, once so full of life, became timid and retiring, sensitive to an excessive degree. One look was enough to reduce me to tears, and the on…"

"Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service."

"Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights with the results of lascivious joys. Because it does not know the true light. Because it does not know what is the true light. Vain splendour takes from u…"

"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."

"The argument that coming into existence is always a harm can be summarized as follows: Both good and bad things happen only to those who exist. However, there is a crucial asymmetry between the good a…"

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."

"Happiness is such a fleeting point of view—there’s no such thing as continual happiness. There are only moments of happiness—from contentment to ecstasy. And if by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, …"

"I had obtained some distinction, and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and little as it was which I had attained, yet having …"