“So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.”
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“Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.”
“I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.”
“For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.”
“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
“Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.”
“The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.”
“There is no happiness outside of ourselves.”
“I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.”
“I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.”
“Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.”
“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
“It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.”
“Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.”
“We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.”
“The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.”
“For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.”
“I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.”
“Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.”
“I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.”
“I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.”
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.”
“It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.”