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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw quotes about happy

Irish Playwright, Writer July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw
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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in... George Bernard Shaw
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. George Bernard Shaw
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? George Bernard Shaw
I have studied him (Muhammad PBUH) - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it much needed peace and happiness. George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. George Bernard Shaw
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop..."
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it..."
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it..."
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough..."
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would..."
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother..."
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw

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