Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful. "

Related Quotes:

" You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. "

Andrew Solomon

You

Think

Depression

" A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. "

Elsa Schiaparelli

Happiness

Cook

" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

" Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. "

" I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible. "

" Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. "

" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. "

" People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does. "

" To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' "

" Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. "

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

" Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. "

" Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. "

" If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth. "

" Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service. "

" 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. "

" I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things. "

" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

" Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. "

" In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. "

" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "

" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "

Andre Gide

Happiness

Memory

" I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on. "

" I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music. "

" Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. "

" Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. "

" How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. "

William Ellery Channing

Amiable

How

Happiness

" No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. "

" So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. "