To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke
The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.
William Shakespeare
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
George Orwell
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
Henry Louis Mencken
A business organization whose employees are happy is more productive, has a higher morale, and has a lower turnover.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Artaud, Antonin