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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
These two Emparadised in one another's arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss.
john milton— 1665 Of Adam and Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.505-8.
O que trois et quatre fois heureux sont ceux qui plantent choux! Oh, those who plant cabbages are three and four times happier than the rest of us!
— 1548 Quart Livre, pt.18.
This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crownofsorrow isremembering happier things.
Tennyson— 1842 Poems,'Locksley Hall' l.75-6.
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Tennyson— 1860 'Tithonus' (revised1864),1.70-1.
The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:there is no pain as great as being alive,no burden heavier than that of conscious life.
rubén darío— Fatalidad (Fatality)
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
bette davis— Gerhard Gschwandtner, Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007, ISBN 0071475990, p. 89.
He thought it happier to be dead,To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
ralph waldo emerson— Beauty
[Spike] is a sadist and he is never happier than when he is hurting people or killing people, but he is truly, sincerely, deeply in love with Drusilla.
james marsters— Vampire Bytes by Sue Schneider (Feb '99)
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
christopher morley— On Visiting Bookshops, Pipefuls (1921)
Yon deep bark goesWhere Traffic blowsFrom lands of sun to lands of snows;—Yon happier one,Its course is runFrom lands of snow to lands of sun.
thomas buchanan read— Drifting.
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
fulton j. sheen— Angels
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Ch. II (Biographia Literaria (1817))
I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
mary martin— As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183
Nothing would make me happier than to have you share it with everyone you know. All surveys have shown that, the more people who see it especially those still sitting on the fence the more likely we will have regime change.
Michael Moore— Fahrenheit 9/11 Out On Home Video/DVD Today! Pass it Around.... MichaelMoore.com (5 October 2004).On the DVD release of Fahrenheit 9/11
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier
conor oberst— Poison Oak
What is missing to our civilisation, is the soul, the spiritual unity, the basis. That is why everything in it is pretence and contrivance ("façade et artifice", Fr.); why also, in spite of the progress and marvellous improvement they have accomplished in the external realm ("domaine extérieur", Fr.) men have, in general, become themselves neither better, nor happier. They have neglected too much the essential; their own perfecting (or improvement - "perfectionnement", Fr.)
african spir— p. 36 -First thought of the book, - the translator.
Friends, citizens, and brethren. This our friend Hath given you by my charge to know of me Thus much, that if your ends and mine be one, As one our wrongs are, and this people's need One, toward the goal forefelt of our desire No heart shall beat, no foot shall press, no hand Strain, strive, and strike with steadier will than mine And faith more strenuous toward the purpose. This If ye believe not, here our hope hath end; If ye believe, here under happier stars Begins the date of Venice.
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act III, Sc. 1.
I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
larry wall— Usenet article <20031219184224.GA19865@wall.org> (2003)
The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.
richard weaver— pp. 14-15 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.
— Peter Singer, “Taking Life: Humans”; excerpted from Singer, Practical Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
A wolf is happier when it does not hear the hounds tracking it.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act III, scene 2, line 162.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
— 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
Tanto brevius omne, quanto felicius tempus. The happier the time, the quicker it passes.
pliny the younger— Pliny the Younger, Epistles, VII. 14.
