happiness

"For some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others with these, or one of these, accompanied by pleasure or not without pleasure;"

"Real love has nothing to do with lust or self-centeredness. In real love, you are not important; the other is important. In love, the other is not your instrument to fulfil your selfish desires; you a…"

"He was wont to say: "Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that ever)' one sh…"

"We don't want any Vietnamese in Cambodia.... We will be very glad if you solve our problem. We are not opposed to hot pursuit in uninhabited areas. You would be liberating us from the Viet Cong. For m…"

"No pure delight cheers the farmer whose mind is intent on the price he shall get for his crops rather than on the joy there is in tilling them and seeing them grow and ripen: for such an one does not …"

"Contenting myself, accordingly, with a gesture of loving sympathy, I left the room. Whether she did or did not throw a handsomely bound volume of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, at me, I am not in…"

"BBC Horizon: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"

"If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made man to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. ."

"To ask the mind to kill the mind | is like making the thief, | when I reach the selfish stage | I enjoy a certain pleasure, | but sometimes a vague fear | which I cannot describe."

"Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change B…"

"If an individual is required to give up his own happiness for society, of what value is society to him?"

"I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more."

"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."

"I do not pretend that I know the whole solution of the world's problems, but I am burdened with a Puritanical sense of obligation to set the world to rights. I feel responsible for many enterprises th…"

"'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures."

"Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."

"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."

"I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am."

"Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport."

"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."