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Today, when the Gospel is under attack from all directions, I too must ask the question: "What profit do you get from your unbelief?" I never get the impression that people have peace of mind or are happier for all their unbelief. No, my friends.
wilhelm busch— "What's the use of walking with God?" p.216 (19 June 1966)
All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air, It makes the reptile equal to the God; They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Asia, Act II, sc. v, l. 39.
If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
john wooden— As quoted in ABC of Quotes (2015), by Vincent Thnay.
Could I love less, I should be happier now.
philip james bailey— Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Garden and Bower by the Sea
Happy is the country which has no history, and happier still is that musical comedyabout which one can find nothing to say.
James Agate— 1920 In the Sunday Times.
Most of the world's troubles seem to come from people who are too busy. If only politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
— 1962 Seven Deadly Sins.
Weep not for me: suffering, as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers.
— To one of his executioners, whom he noticed weeping, as quoted in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1844) by WIlliam Smith, p. 73
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
mikhail bakunin— Statism and Anarchy (1873)
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
brendan behan— As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 420
He thought it happier to be dead,To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
ralph waldo emerson— Beauty
My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.
gavin ewart— "Days of Contempt", line 4, from Poems and Songs (1939)
I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.
carl friedrich gauss— A reply to Rudolf Wagner's on his religious views as quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (2004) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 305.
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.
Olaf Stapledon— Part V The Reign of Darkness, 3. Diabolic World Empire.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
— Pliny the Elder, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
william wordsworth— Stanza 18. (Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798))
Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
rob payne— Chapter 11, p. 90
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.
Sylvia Plath— 1950 entry, quoted in Kate Moses, "The Real Sylvia Plath," Salon.com (2000-06-01) [3]
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
pythagoras— As quoted in Gems of Thought: Being a Collection of More Than a Thousand Choice Selections, Or Aphorisms, from Nearly Four Hundred and Fifty Different Authors, and on One Hundred and Forty Different Subjects (1888). p. 97 by Charles Northend
I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my "accomplishments" from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.
alicia witt— AOL Live (1996)
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
— Pliny the Elder, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256
Of such as he was, there be few on earth; Of such as he is, there are few in Heaven: And life is all the sweeter that he lived, And all he loved more sacred for his sake: And Death is all the brighter that he died, And Heaven is all the happier that he's there.
gerald massey— Gerald Massey, In Memoriam for Earl Brownlow.
Behold who ever wept, and in his tears Was happier far than others in their smiles.
— Petrarch, The Triumph of Eternity!, line 95. (Charlemont).
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
— Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living (1931).
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
philip james bailey— Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Village Feast. Evening.
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in what we excite.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 78.
He who for love hath undergone the worst that can befall, is happier thousandfold than one who never loved at all.
— Monckton Milnes, To Myrzha, On Returning.
The prospects of a happier society are wrapped up in this despised and neglected truth , the very statement which will, at the present time (I well know) appear ridiculous to the accepted instructors of the people.
— David Icke, in It Doesn't Have to be Like this: Green Politics Explained, p.126
Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.
Germany kent— American journalist, author and entrepreneur
