happiness

• “They even laughed at the possibility of their former happiness and called it a dream… but the strange and wonderful thing was that though they had lost faith in their former state of happiness… they longed so much to be happy and innocent once more that, like children, they succumbed to the desire of their hearts, glorified this desire, built temples, and began offering up prayers to their own idea, their own "desire," and at the same time firmly believed that it could not be realized and brought about, though they still worshipped and adored it with tears.”

  A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky

• “Children will profit from drill in and out of school in the science of avoiding offense and of giving happiness, but unless the categories -- _acts that give offense_ and _acts that give happiness_ -- are wide enough to include the main acts committed in the normal relations of son, companion, employer, husband, father, and citizen, those who set out to avoid alcohol and tobacco find themselves ill equipped to carry the obligations of a temperate, law-abiding citizen.”

  Civics and Health

• “Patty at PerfumePosse had a great review of this where she wrote that it embodies happiness: a ..happiness that is complex and embraces all of life’s sorrow and joy.”

  Archive 2007-03-01

• “* I get a big kick out of the lifestyle and design blog Oh Happy Day -- partly because it's fun to read, and partly because when I was starting my book "The Happiness Project" and this blog, a good friend insisted that the phrase "happiness project" sounded like too much work, so I should re-name my blog "Oh Happy Day.”

  The Huffington Post: Gretchen Rubin: QUIZ: Are You an 'Energizer' or a 'De-Energizer' at Work?

• “In fact, the word happiness has to do with happenings or things that happen.”

  Simon & Schuster: Living on the Edge

• “But I'm trying to find the best path, and telling me that every path someone uses to attain happiness is equally valid is the same as telling me that the trans-Siberian mall route is just as good as the "take a right" method.”

  Woo... Hoo?

• “Hedonists have appropriated the term happiness as an equivalent to the totality of pleasurable or agreeable feeling.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “It is not, however, the less true that there is a proper object to aim at; and if this object be meant by the term happiness, the perfection of which consists in the exclusion of all hap [_i. e., _ chance], I assert that there is such a thing as _summum bonum_, or ultimate good.”

  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy

• “There is no highroad to what you term happiness," Wingrave answered.”

  The Malefactor

• “Nor again does the image of Christ lead us to conceive of pleasure, or of what we term happiness, as specially appropriate to the Divine”

  Sermons on Faith and Doctrine by the Late Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College

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