"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness." ― Milan Kundera Topic(s): Happiness More From Milan Kundera "Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress." "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent." "No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches." More In Happiness "It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."― Max Planck "Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."― Saint Augustine "If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."― William Lyon Phelps