“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”
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“If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.”
“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.”
“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”
“Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.”
“I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.”
“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.”
“No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.”
“There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.”
“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”
“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.”
“Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.”
“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.”
“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”
“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”
“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”
“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
“It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.”
“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.”
“I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.”
“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”
“One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.”
“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.”
“True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.”