I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
I thought happiness came from achievement.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'
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.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
