The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.
The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.
If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation "some fact of my life" unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, o...
When asked what gave her the strength and commitment to refuse segregation, (Rosa) Parks credited her mother and grandfather "for giving me the spirit of freedom... that I should not feel because of my race or color, inferior to any person. That I sh...
To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration...
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, su...
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own a...