Happiness Quote by Ruth Benedict Download Open image “The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical” — Ruth Benedict ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Happy Trouble
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
One of the biggest challenges in trying to be happy right now isn't that we don't know how to be happy. It's mostly that… — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in. — Dyan Cannon Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. — Ruth Benedict 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
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
