Happiness too is an idol of the market-place

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's heaven when you find romance on your menu

Jamie Cullum, What a difference a day made (lyrics and video clip



What a difference a day made,
twenty four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
where there use to be rain

They prefer the barren middle ground of nothing.

Most people are unwilling to suffer the experience of great joy or great sadness. They prefer the barren middle ground of nothing.

Commenting on the characters in Albee's, Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf, From: A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-century American Drama, C. W. E. Bigsby