Quotes of: Human-happiness Keyword

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

Happiness and Contemplation

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

We are governed by our thoughts in life. Think happy and positive thoughts and you will live a happy & positive life. There is no other way.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.

The Brothers Karamazov

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.

Brisingr

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

Betrayed

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

Maeve Binchy

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Amanda Holden

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

George Clooney

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

Clifford Odets

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever c...

Virginia Postrel

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world's music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing!

Gregory Stock

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.

The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Anne's House of Dreams

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

American Elsewhere

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

Immortality

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

The Innocence of Objects