Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition - they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It's not only the star system. It's a symbol of freedom.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

I love dancing, and I dance for my own happiness.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

I saw 'Joy Luck Club' when it came out, so that was early mid-'90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We'd just done 'Double Happiness,' and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the fields, have a whiskey at five o'clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn't complicated.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

Football is my happiness.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

To me, flowers are happiness.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.