George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Dream Quotes

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

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Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

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The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

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Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

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