The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
