Brave New World Happiness Quotes & Sayings

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world. — Brian Reynolds Myers

He had a strong conviction that no government could be ordained that could resist these internal forces, when, they are directed to its destruction by bad men, or unreasoning mobs, and many then believed, as some yet believe, that our government is unequal to such pressure, when the assault is thoroughly desperate. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get. — Gary McCord

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil. — Fulton J. Sheen

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror. — Agnes Varda

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. — Danny Boyle

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. — Emma Smith

Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer. — William Shakespeare

A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth. — T.R. Reid

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys. — Martial

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something. — J.P. Donleavy

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction. — Lionel Shriver

I am a tale, I am a book, written in different languages and styles

I can't be read, can't be understood,
neither by me nor the greatest of minds

I am too big, I am too small, to be processed or seen by the naked eye

I am too dim, I am too bright, to appear in the shadows or the sunshine. — Sanober Khan

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness! - From Brave New World — Aldous Huxley

That is the secret of happiness and virtue
liking what you've got to do. — Aldous Huxley

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary ... — Jean Rhys

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. — Dolly Parton