Happiness Quote by Ayobami Adebayo Download Open image “I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.” — Ayobami Adebayo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness I am Own People Should
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share
Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is one wishe that people try to manifest, the emotional stability that gives them the sense of well being that they call happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share
I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
In 2010, I was working in a bank in Lagos. It was a crazy job with long working hours. I had to leave for… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
Usually, by the time I hit 'save' before taking a nap, my word count has gone down, but the world I'm creating feels more… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I think, for women in particular, it's kind of like you're expected to get married, have a child, and then you get to be a person. But you don't need someone else - be it a spouse or child - to complete or validate your existence. Being human is enough and should be enough, and I hope that we all… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share
I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share
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, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its… — Mira Grant Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
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
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image