Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Ibid., p. 328
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Não há felicidade senão com conhecimento. Mas o conhecimento da felicidade é infeliz; porque conhecer-se feliz é conhecer-se passando pela felicidade, e tendo, logo já, que deixá-la atrás. Saber é matar, na felicidade como em tudo. Não saber, porém, é não existir.
“Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.”
Source: Heart of the Matter
“Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.
Mount Madonna Messenger, March 26, 2016
Essay on Mitford's History of Greece (1824)
Source: As quoted in "In conversation with Kate Bush" by Elio Iannacci in MacLeans (28 November 2016) https://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/in-conversation-with-kate-bush/
“This is the Imus in the Morning program, We're not happy 'till you're not happy.”
Imus in the Morning, (15 June 2006)
Girls & Boys
Song lyrics, Parade Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
