happiness

"Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure."

"Mastery of content that is measurable, tangible, and translates into respect."

"To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it."

"The inextricable way pleasure and pain are mixed up with each other in this world is a mournful fact to beings who are all the time striving for pleasure alone. In the ideal world there is no pain, no…"

"SCAD shows that we can educate students and prepare them for successful careers in creative fields. That was a revolutionary idea when SCAD began, but our students and alumni — who hail from over 100 …"

"We call that psychical process, which is operative in the clear perception of a narrow region of the content of consciousness, attention."

"There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away."

"Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer."

"Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found."

"Fortune, dost thou threaten poverty? Metrocles laughs at thee, who sleeps during winter among the sheep, in summer in the vestibules of temples, and challenges the king of the Persians, who winters at…"

"Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain."

"I felt comparatively happy, but I can assure the reader that I had had a far worse time of it than I have told him; and I strongly recommend him to remain in Europe if he can; or, at any rate, in some…"

"Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye."

"When God Almighty had shewed so plenteously and joyfully of His Goodness, I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved, if it should continue in good living, which I hoped by the…"

"If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"Samuel Beckett's essay on Vico and Joyce"

"For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suf…"

"He realized that he could rise only through the support of the discontented and utterly disillusioned middle class. All he did later was to subjugate it. Rauschning describes in detail Hitler's intens…"

"Search for contentment in each person you meet."