"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Happiness Tags: agreeable, arising, happiness, sensation More From Ambrose Bierce "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable." "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows." More In Happiness "A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."― Theodor Adorno "The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."― Charles Morgan "Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss."― K. D. Lang