Social Icons
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes

Press ESC to close

Happiness is a byproduct of function purpose and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Topic:

Happiness,

Author:

William S. Burroughs
Share Article:
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Telegram Share on Whatsapp

Previous Article

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Next Article

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

More in this CategoryHappiness

Happiness
View All Articles
1

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings not count the years.

2

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose freedom and happiness.

3

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

4

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

View All Articles

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Article Information

Category: Happiness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. As you age naturally your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that you deny your heritage.
  • 2. I think the sport of wrestling which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34 kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
  • 3. There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings as men or women by our age our history our profession by the state of the world.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.
  • 2. My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers – we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that because we would have drifted apart.
  • 3. I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
  • 2. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
  • 3. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice ambition envy anger and pride if these were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 3. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
  • 2. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
  • 3. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
© Diamant Group 2025