George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to except and what to let go.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

Let’s make ourselves happy

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. 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. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.