Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle… — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from your own choices and actions. Waiting for someone else to make you happy is the best way to be… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“You make the choice concerning who you associate with on a daily basis. Whenever there are people around you who continually gossip… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“We can live by the things that just happen each day, Or dream up a vision to show us the way. For… — Emma's Mussings Copy Share Image
The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
“These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Most of you guys think just because a girl is nice to them, it means 'she wants the D.' No, Just because… — Muniir Zero Copy Share Image
“If you are having a hard time being content, make a list of everything you have that you don’t deserve, and then… — Erik Raymond Copy Share Image
“Listen, listen!" I interrupted her. "Forgive me if I tell you something else… I tell you what, I can't help coming here… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Music is always a healer, music's never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you cant truly… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“At night I lay awake, her likeness casting dark shadows across my soul and senses, and my stomach throbbing away. I imagined… — Stephen Mosley Copy Share Image
Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself,… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I am so glad that I'm being helpful to some other peoples lives, I let them live, I show them kindness, I… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
“Some chase wealth to feel fine, Some want fame to rise and shine, Some find joy in power, or the divine, But… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that although you can do something on your own, even with my solo album, 'These Grey Men,' I… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Just look at this life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, impossible poverty all… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Not only is there no way to make everyone happy, it’s nearly impossible to make anyone happy. And anyway, most people only… — Caroline Burau Copy Share Image
The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart;… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
When you're feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you'll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Contentment has learned how to find out what she needs to know. Last year she went on a major housecleaning spree. First… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
