Quotes of: Pursuit-of-happiness Keyword

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

The Count of Monte Cristo

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops out. These are the thoughts that keep me happy.

Chew, Vol. 3: Just Desserts

Remember your true self. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. Knowing this, you will understand why happiness and prosperity are your birth right.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be.

The Choices We Make: A Memoir about Surviving and a Journey to Love & Happiness

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

The Culture Industry

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

This I have known, and these have come again With echoing happiness in heart and brain; Time standing still, surrendering to me Beauty that otherwise would cease to be.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

The Complete Poems

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

Cosmicomics

Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

The Cellist of Sarajevo

. . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

The Collected Writings

Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!

Daily Drive 365

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

David Copperfield

Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.

The Demon's Covenant

Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

The demon was turning out to be an unpredictable, feral, bone-and-head-collecting, sexually ravenous happiness battery. She swallowed. All I have to do is plug him in.

Demon from the Dark

Until 'you' FULLY embrace who 'you are', no amount of money, no person or external things will EVER make you happy or bring you peace.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

Happiness and Peace is something we nurture from within, Cultivate yours and enjoy the sunshine, feel the warmth.

Darla: One Woman, Two Men, One Obsession

One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.

Emotionally Charged Learning: Secrets to Competitive Advantages for the Second Half of the Knowledge/Entertainment-Based Economy

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Engleby