happiness

"Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another."

"The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment."

"The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it."

"His smile is sweetened by his gravity."

"You see us poor Englishmen searching hard for the solution of a problem when there isn't one. You may think that the Irish want certain definite reforms, and that they will be happy and contented the …"

"Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures."

"Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second."

"The review was more a satisfaction to me than a joy. Joy, overpoweringly beautiful moments, comes to an artist without other noticing. The same is true for moments of sadness. That's why it is true th…"

"I have gradually come to one negative conclusion about the good life. It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. It is not, in my estimation, a state of virtue, or contentment, or nirva…"

"…One of my favorite things was that television was all in English. Growing up an English speaker in a predominantly French-speaking country, I couldn’t understand most TV shows since they were in Fren…"

"It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much."

"Unhappiness is simply when the picture in your head doesn’t match the picture in front of you."

"I take unceasing delight in Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch of sickly melanch…"

"We all possess, in our unconscious minds, a kind of servant who performs certain automatic functions. When I learn to type or drive a car or learn a foreign language, I have to do it painfully and con…"

"The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."

"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."

"Inflation is the unhappy result of our monetary mismanagement and the ultimate cause of the coming economic collapse."

"I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression."

"The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no di…"

"Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."