George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness is the absence of striving for 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.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

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.

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

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.

I love people who make me laugh.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

I’ve found happiness in my work, but not in my private life. I had to take from my private life to make my public life successful. I had to make a lot of sacrifices. I was happy in Cardiff. I had a great time. Every Thursday there was a factory club; darts, dancing. I was happy until success entered my life, and then it was all downhill. Success spoilt me. It took away my happiness. My success became a barrier with my family. They couldn’t relate to me, and I couldn’t relate to them.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.