George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Happiness
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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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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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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