Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. – Diane Lane
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. – Diana Ross
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. – George Westinghouse
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. – Nicki Minaj
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. – Robert Wyatt
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. – Andrew Weil
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world. – Taylor Caldwell
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. – Ric Ocasek
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. – Barbara Ehrenreich
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. – Tom Ford
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. – Polly Toynbee
Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel. – Harry Browne
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. – William Godwin
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. – Chuck Norris
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. – George Mason
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. – Meir Kahane
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. – Bernard Cornwell
