Happiness Quote by Gertrude Atherton

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things and events…

— Sheri S. Tepper

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

— Alexander Pope

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

— John Ortberg

You can't live on amusement

— Robert Grant

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject…

— Blaise Pascal

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he…

— Christopher Morley

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and…

— Aristotle

“the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment”

— Tom Robbins

“The joy of life is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing in the spontaneity of life…

— Mircea Eliade

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

— John Ortberg