Happiness Quote by Alan Lightman Download Open image “The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.” — Alan Lightman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Joy Pain Stuck This world Time Tragedy World
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nobody can be happy all the time, and if you aim to be, ultimately you will never be happy. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Have a reason to be happy, there are people really suffering that have a real reason to not be. — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
We can't be miserable all the time. I think just as human beings, we have to find joy or else all is lost. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world was not created to make everyone happy. Some of them must suffer to make other happy — Alvin Copy Share Image
If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image