“Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I call them my children for they have been my wife, my hawks, my hounds, my cards, my dice and in totall,… — John Smith Copy Share Image
“in other words, accept yourself. love your body the way it is and feel grateful towards it. most importantly, in order to… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but … we have to earn it. And that’s something you can’t achieve… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love,… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
“The realization of the fact that I didn’t need Clint to feel this happiness made me laugh. At first it came out… — Trisha R. Thomas Copy Share Image
“I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
“Bear ‘beating’ in this world. Therein is the taste of the Soul [the Atma]. There is no taste [feeling of goodness, happiness]… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer; For all such vain… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“But in that first flush of victory and happiness and relief, and God knows what other emotions were involved in this great… — Harry Bernstein Copy Share Image
Don't run away from a challenge. Instead, run toward it, because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“True Friendship is a bliss that no person should miss,As there can be only a handful in your life who can bestow… — Abhishek Sundarraman Copy Share Image
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large,… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Other human may try to cut me open inside, to see my happiness, but they will not find a trace. *Feel how… — Ms_Freshie Copy Share Image
Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“„Štěstí je stav, ve kterém člověk dělá to co miluje a miluje to co dělá. Tudíž to co dělá je pro něj… — Jaroslav Dušek Copy Share Image
Living in this world is full of joy. But not like having a son and daughter, its a joy of having them.… — Teejay David Copy Share Image
I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
By letting go of our insatiable desire to fix and change everyone and everything around us, we give ourselves the space to… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Seeking approval from others is perfectly fine up until the point where you are compromising your health and happiness in the process.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are two effulgent stars in the welkin today, one is the Star of God and one is you! I hope you… — Apoorv Awasthi Copy Share Image
“ 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“By forty, is there anyone who hasn’t had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
“The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image