“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
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“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
“I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.”
“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.”
“Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.”
“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
“I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.”
“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”
“There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.”
“America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.”
“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”
“There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.”
“It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.”
“I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.”
“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.”
“The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.”
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
“Happiness is always a coincidence.”
“I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.”
“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”
“The gratification of desire is not happiness.”
“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.”
“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”