Happiness Quote by Angelica Hopes

“Cultivate happiness. Hone your sense of humor; it’s the most irresistible asset any of us can possess.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It…

— Madame de Stael

“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what…

— Fernando Pessoa

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is…

— Walt Whitman

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“Reflection of the Past, Acceptance of What Was, and the Discovery of the Humor in All Things Heals Even the Deepest of Wounds”

— Kate Corsen

“You have to enjoy power, have a certain ruthlessness, to accept the beauty and not mourn the fact that it overshadows everything else. As…

— Philip Roth

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

— Finley Peter Dunne

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

— William Cowper

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

— Jane Austen

“Humor is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience”

— Nietzsche