Quotes of: Greatest-happiness Keyword

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.

Mr. Peanut

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Maskerade

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Nerilka's Story

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Norwegian Wood

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

The Never War

One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.

The Name of the Wind

Sometimes it's not that people bring us happiness, they just bring us familiarity. You know what to expect from them.

Out of the Cage

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Loser Takes All

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.

Living Dead in Dallas

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

To the Lighthouse

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

If you are happy for a day, a thousand people notice it, but when you are sad for years, everyone just walks away.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

A good wife keeps you happy in bed, but a better wife keeps you happier even out of the bed.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?

Look into the stillness

No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.

Lost in Time