“I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.”
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“Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.”
“The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.”
“The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.”
“Happiness is only real when shared.”
“And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.”
“I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.”
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.”
“I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.”
“So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.”
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”
“Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.”
“I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.”
“Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.”
“I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.”
“There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.”
“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”
“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.”
“Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.”
“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.”
“Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.”
“No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”
“No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.”
“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.”