“I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I just desperately wanted to be happy again in a way that wasn't forced. I wanted to feel like I accomplished something.… — Michael Angelakos Copy Share Image
There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it,… — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“For although you are given complete free will to create as you choose, the soul begins to learn that what brings it… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
“Being an innovator is something that most people just won't get. It's still yummy doing this thang over here though. The older… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
“He lived like a devil and died like a saint. Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the… — Haidji Copy Share Image
When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically.… — Cyriac Roeding Copy Share Image
“The contemplative seeks to be drawn ever more deeply into the circle of divine being, consciousness, and bliss, the circle of God… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss."… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You spend years swaying between letting go and holding on, only to finally realise that letting go off - someone you truly… — Drishti Bablani Copy Share Image
“We look for happiness in every other thing and being around us. We live in an “if and then” model of happiness.… — Rakesh Sethi Copy Share Image
This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The trick to healthier and happier relationships, friendships and marriages are to give everything AZ soon AZ you possibLEE can. Most souls… — Lee Levy Cape Town Copy Share Image
“But if we can achieve a deeper understanding of “suffering,” of the unreliability of everything we experience, it will help us appreciate… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
“I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself. I… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“No happiness but in virtue. No, that wasn't true. Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Three a.m. is prime time for the soul. Programming should start any minute, and it's hard to tell what'll be on this… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I ask some of you here today . . . you have prestige, you have money; but you haven't found inward peace… — Patrick Doucette Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the strongest, happiest people are really striving in pain on the inside. Sometimes, the happy people who always laugh cry themselves… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
“And Mac? After we went to Dave and Bubba’s, he comes out to the mound and tells me he thinks you’re hot.… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“And Petschek had asked—because he was genuinely puzzled by this—why so many people, Americans especially, seemed to feel that happiness was an… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“The light-minded and coarse of soul enjoy nothing spiritually. Even pious souls that lack recollection will never experience spiritual joys. Frivolity of… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“We take a certain sick pride in the fact that we know the caloric and fat content of every possible food on… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
For us to feel peace within our hearts while we live here on earth we must be righteous. There is nothing that… — Patricia P. Pinegar Copy Share Image
We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
