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Happiness Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in…
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
- I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding…
- Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:…
- Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
- You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell…
- Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
- He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of…
- Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
- I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
- Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
- The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do…
- It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are…
- The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
- The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because…
- This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
- It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach