Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ”

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ”

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. ”

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. ”

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ”

One of the joys about acting is researching. ”

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. ”

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. ”

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ”