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Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Some days are simply meant for playing.
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
I happy am, if well with you.
There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
Happiness is a sort of action.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.
I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.
I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.
Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.
Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment.
You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.
Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?
The purpose of life is Joy.
You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
How little has situation to do with happiness.
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.
