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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.
I was talking to one of the Secret Service men about security the other day, and he said that as far as they were concerned, they'd be happier if we lived in a bunker and traveled the streets in a tank.
— Quoted in Gore Vidal Virgin Islands: Essays1992-1997 (1997).
There is a good case for showing that airplanes, Debray machines, thetelephoneand theradio donot make men of today happier than those of former times.
Simone de Beauvoir— 1948 Ethics of Ambiguity.
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
Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.#
david blanchflower— OC Register
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.
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy — happier — today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
ernest hemingway— As quoted in The New York Times Book Review (7 November 1954)
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))
Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there! Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him; To a boon southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine (And purer or more subtle soul than thee, I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see) Within a folding of the Apennine.
Matthew Arnold— St. 18. (Thyrsis (1866))
What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
charlotte brontë— Helen Burns to Jane (Ch. 6)
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 am ashamed of belonging to the species Homo Sapiens...You & I may be thankful to have lived in happier times – you more than I, because you have no children.
bertrand russell— Letter to Lucy Donnelly, 23 June, 1946.
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).
Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
— Chapter 11, p. 90 (Working Class Zero (2003))
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
philip james bailey— Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Village Feast. Evening.
There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, Friends
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
