„The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.“
— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
„There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.“
Origine: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Ultimo aggiornamento 03 Giugno 2021. Storia
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— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
"The Gods" (1876) as published in The Gods and Other Lectures (1879); this was one of his earliest versions of what became known as his "Creed". Some variants:
Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.
As quoted in Familiar Quotations (1937) edited by Christopher Morley, p. 603
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Variant, as it appears on a manuscript copy he jotted down for a fan (26 March 1897) <!-- I know I have seen an image of this, and might be able to find a copy somewhere... ~ Kalki 2007·08·11 -->
Contesto: Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
— Richard Branson English business magnate, investor and philanthropist 1950
Origine: Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
„Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?“
— Scott Westerfeld, libro Afterworlds
Origine: Afterworlds
— James Saurin Bishop of Dromore; Irish Anglican bishop 1759 - 1842
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 270.
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
Contesto: The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
„Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.“
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
"The Threatened", The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)
„The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.“
— Dinah Craik English novelist and poet 1826 - 1887
Ch 11
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
— Ricky Gervais English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter 1961
Ghost Town, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5SYnbz7wgU
— Fabio Lanzoni Italian model, actor and author 1961
Fifteen hours with Fabio http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/12/23/fabio/?utm_term=.55d4ac289b9c (December 23, 2015)
— Swami Narayanananda Indian guru 1902 - 1988
The Essence of Life (1980), also in Minor Works II (2001), p. 131f
— Gretchen Rubin American writer 1966
Origine: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
