George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.

The secret of happiness? Live life in the slow lane.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.