Happiness Quotes and Sayings
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~ Thomas Szasz. To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. ~ Julian Barnes. I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. ~ Harlan Ellison. Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home...the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan...is as inviolable in the eye of God as can be your own. ~ William Gladstone. Happiness is always a work of art: the least fault distorts it, the least hesitation changes it, a little dullness spoils it, the smallest foolish act makes it idiotic. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~ George Bernard Shaw. I couldn’t eat, just went on drinking coffee, and sweating it out again. Liquid had no time to be digested; it came through the pores long before it reached the stomach. I lay wet through with sweat for hours - it was very nearly like happiness. ~ Graham Greene. |
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