Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.