Guests
1. “But oft the unbidden guest proves the best company.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
Habit
2. “Habit is a horrible thing.” (Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask)
Hair
3. “Everybody gets bold. The wisest people in the world lose their hair. Kings and generals, rich people and poor people, they are all bald!” (James Stephens, The Horses )
Halfbreeds
4. “All halfbreeds, as you must have heard, are violent and treacherous, especially when under the effects of alcohol.” (Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord)
Happiness
5. “Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.” (Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask)
6. “… happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” (Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge)
7. “You can’t buy happiness.” (John Fowles, The Collector)
8. “Happiness is being allowed to choose one’s own life; to live it the way one wants. Happiness is knowing one is beloved and having someone to love. Happiness is being able to hope for tomorrow.” (Anita Nair, Ladies Coupe)
9. “A person who has never known happiness has no right to scorn it.” (Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask)
10. “Well… if we can make a person happier and more serene, we should do it in any case, whether or not he asks us to.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game)
