My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. — Gail Porter 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I… — Rob Brydon Copy Share Image
“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be “colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“For a crippled man like me, personal happiness was possible only in dreams.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. — John Locke 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
“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
Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For example, “the richest Americans, those earning more than $ 10 million annually, reported levels of personal happiness only slightly greater than… — Ken Robinson 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
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
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
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
“Every now and then there comes a moment in history when an individual not previously credited with any particular integrity is elevated… — Nancy Goldstone 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
