Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway