Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Smiling and being helpful is part of his being. At times people did not like his offer of selfless love, and his care towards…

— Raj Doctor

“He was so unfamiliar with this peaceful sense of happiness he did not even recognize it.”

— Isabel Allende

“It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard.”

— Anna Burns

“There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Few behaviors of other people are more irritating than those that display our own faults in an unattractive way.”

— John Verdon

“He sneered with the impatience of people listening to the obvious lies of others.”

— Anne Rice

“And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for…

— Sylvain Reynard

“My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.”

— Anton Chekhov

“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not…

— Jonas Jonasson

“It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way…

— Rodman Philbrick