Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing… — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it. — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
“We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my… — Laura Munson Copy Share Image
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order… — Grant Hart Copy Share Image
Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these… — Tom Osborne Copy Share Image
I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“variety of kinds of practices of generosity are positively and significantly associated with five important good life outcomes. Giving money, volunteering, being… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Maybe I wasn't meant to have everything - personal happiness doesn't seem to be on the cards. — Reham Khan Copy Share Image
“I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“With decisions to make that will affect his life and the sheriff’s department for a long time to come, Wyatt has to… — T.L. Haddix Copy Share Image
You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise… — Fernando Rodes Vila Copy Share Image
A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image