Happiness Quotes · Page 883

“It is easy, of course, to fear happiness. There is often complacency in the acceptance of misery. We fear parting from our…

— Tim O'Brien

“REAL Entrepreneurs will be the one's who change the world for the better. Governments must become PUBLIC servants to create the best…

— Tony Dovale

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of…

— Leo Rosten

I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a…

— Richard Branson

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or…

— Jonathan Swift

“For Massumi, affect is primary, non-conscious, asubjective or presubjective, asignifying, unqualified, and intensive; while emotion is derivative, conscious, qualified, and meaningful, a…

— Steven Shaviro

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings…

— Vera Brittain

Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm…

— Diane Lane

“I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is…

— Storm Constantine

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the…

— Madame de Stael

“55 But I was born for peaceful roaming, For country calm and lack of strife; My lyre sings! And in the gloaming…

— Alexander Pushkin

“TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE…

— Daniel Keys Moran

To a man who cared me when I need. To a man who made me happy when I was sad. To a…

— Anonymous

“By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep…

— Ilchi Lee

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at…

— Wayne Dyer

“I watched voyeuristically, knowing I was peeping at people in the middle of a collective dream. I imagined myself among them, part…

— Mary Gaitskill

“I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs,…

— Stefan Zweig

“We feel Divine Love entering us firstly through gentle, soft, humbling, kind and loving feelings, independent of any other person. This can…

— Padma Aon Prakasha

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The…

— Criss Jami

“We have such high levels of automation and we still wonder why we are suffering. We walk around in our robotic states…

— Mateo Tabatabai

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth…

— Tom Waits

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow…

— Win Butler

“Servitude to law is the hatred of Heaven. Self-love only is the eternal all pleasing, by meditation on this effulgent self which…

— Austin Osman, Spare

“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of…

— Patricia Highsmith

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by…

— George Washington

'There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching, a door at the end of the day. Knowing someone on the…

— Ronald Reagan

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of…

— Tim Jackson

Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be…

— Rajneesh

THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to…

— Jed Rubenfeld

It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life……

— Frances Perkins

“Most people are resentful of the happiness of others and yet we seem to seek validation from others in order to allow…

— Steve Maraboli

Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so…

— Minnie Pearl

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture…

— John French Sloan

Happiness is sought after more than truth is, but only until a certain level that happiness is achieved does one prefer being…

— Ritu Ghatourey

My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have…

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“No imprint means no pain. No pain means you are healed. Healing of the mind is almost like returning to your original…

— Om Swami

“Yam hi na vyathayanthy, ete purusan purursarsabha, Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita "The person who is not disturbed by…

— Bhagavatam