„We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.“
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
„Yet happy we lived and happy we loved,
And happy we died once more“
— Langdon Smith, Evolution
Evolution (1895; 1909)
Kontext: Yet happy we lived and happy we loved,
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold
Of a Neocomian shore.
The eons came and the eons fled
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was riven away in a newer day
And the night of death was past.
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— Gertrude Jekyll garden designer, artist 1843 - 1932
As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
Other
„When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.“
— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.“
— Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012
„Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.“
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
Quelle: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
„The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.“
— Victor Hugo, buch Die Elenden
Variante: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Quelle: Les Misérables
„If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.“
— Toni Morrison, buch The Bluest Eye
Quelle: The Bluest Eye
„We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.“
— William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910
Variante: I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
— Milan Kundera, buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
— Bernie Sanders American politician, senator for Vermont 1941
Late Night with Seth Meyers, (2 June 2015)
2010s, 2015
„Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.“
— L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919
„Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.“
— Hosea Ballou American Universalist minister (1771–1852) 1771 - 1852
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350.
— Joshua Greene American psychologist
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (2013), p. 170
