People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. — Anonymous 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
Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness — Gretchen Rubin 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
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing… — Andrew Delbanco 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
“What we want is happiness, but if in pursuit of our own personal happiness we ignore the welfare of other sentient beings… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has… — Dale J. Stephens 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
“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
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
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
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its… — Walter Gropius 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
Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and… — Ron Paul 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
“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
“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 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
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it. — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise… — Fernando Rodes Vila 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 desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if… — Anton Chekhov 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… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive… — Volker Ullrich 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
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
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