“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.”
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“The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.”
“I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.”
“Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.”
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
“It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”
“There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.”
“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”
“I don't know the true meaning of happiness.”
“Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.”
“Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.”
“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”
“Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.”
“I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.”
“Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.”
“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”
“Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!”
“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”
“We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.”
“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.”