“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
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“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”
“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.”
“I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.”
“My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.”
“It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.”
“I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.”
“I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.”
“Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.”
“I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.”
“I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.”
“I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.”
“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”
“I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.”
“When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.”
“Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.”
“Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.”
“Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.”
“Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.”
“The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.”
“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.”
“Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.”
“Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.”
“As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.”