happiness

"I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it."

"He who needs something to rebel against is less of a social anarchist than he who seeks to create something against which there is no need to rebel. There may be no end to the ugly, sordid, and horrif…"

"May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best po…"

"There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in."

"Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction."

"...l have been deeply struck by his broad and comprehensive approach to National Development and his astonishing energy. He is full of ideas and it is always a pleasure to discuss any subject with him…"

"The poem will not survive on content but through voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of speech never convincingly substitutes."

"Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd."

"nlike positive utilitarianism or so-called preference utilitarianism - neither of which can ever be wholly fulfilled - seems achievable in full."

"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain."

"There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that m…"

"For a man who is sensitive to nature, happiness consists in expressing nature. How infinitely happy, then, is the man who reflects nature like a mirror without being aware of it, who does the thing fo…"

"There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves."

"Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior."

"'Success on that scale don't make for happiness. Look at Asquith. Why does he drink? I wouldn't want you to end up a drunkard like that.'"

"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."

"Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the beh…"

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

"Flies used to be happy-go-lucky, on their own; the sun’s out, have a fly about. Now, there’s little attacks going on."

"The pleasures of self-approbation, together with the right cultivation of all our pleasures, require individual independence. Without independence men cannot become either wise, or useful, or happy."