happiness

"I was obviously floating in the atmosphere; companioned not only by the strange child and the radiant pair, but by a constantly increasing throng of half-luminous, vine-crowned youths and maidens with…"

"Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else."

"Place before thyself the ideal of perfection, not that of happiness, for by doing what makes thee wiser and better, thou shalt find the peace and joy in which happiness consists."

"Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé."

"Britany, from all the World disjoyn'd."

"The Copts — the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse…"

"All those things have given me the greatest satisfaction and contentment because they are not only for the honor of God but are likewise for my own remembrance. For fifty years, I have done nothing el…"

"Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads."

"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."

"I am happy with my Bangladesh."

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

"What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you …"

"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."

"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favour."

"The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude — for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents."

"He is the best man in the game, on and off the court, and he has a great personality. I enjoy so much having opportunities to compete against him."

"Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees."

"A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it’s impossible."

"Industrialization relations are of the highest importance from every point of view including that of production."

"People have said to me that F1 is boring because he wins everything. So presumably when he's not here, people will be happy. But we'll miss him, because he is a superstar."