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Happiness Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

38 Happiness quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness, for George Bernard Shaw, is less a fleeting feeling and more a social critique wrapped in wit. His observations cut through pretension, urging readers to seek authentic joy by challenging conventions, and to recognize that true contentment often lies in purposeful action.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not”

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth…

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken…

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it…

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken…

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly…

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken,…

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life…

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the…

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has…

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,…

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“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being…

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“This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly…

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force…

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it…

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning…

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I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving…

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“...Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is,…

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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being…

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Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

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Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but…

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes…

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich…

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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