We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel JohnsonMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.
Mark ZuckerbergLittle girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret AtwoodTherapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
Angelina JolieThe success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerFreedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiEvery man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest HemingwayI think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.
Alice WalkerThere will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David ThoreauOne of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor SwiftPeople look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Paul AusterUnfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
Bill GatesHealth is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.
Russell M. NelsonSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale CarnegieWe forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur SchopenhauerMy faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel WashingtonWe, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack ObamaWe all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz KafkaFreedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.
Brene BrownNone of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
Lady GagaThe magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFreedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma GandhiI’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
Angelina JolieI’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.
Elvis PresleyThe philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian EnoA lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘
Joyce MeyerI can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.
Charles BukowskiIf we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis PresleyThe palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin DisraeliWe boil at different degrees.
Clint EastwoodK to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Bill GatesI was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert CamusI think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.
George H. W. BushMy parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
Taylor SwiftA well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDo you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma BombeckIf you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.
Taylor SwiftBy all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
SocratesThe worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
George H. W. BushYou call yourself what you want to call yourself.
Bob DylanFreedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayWhen I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.
Bad BunnyI think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor RooseveltI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz KafkaI listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.
Sunil ChhetriI enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
Madeleine AlbrightThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas JeffersonAt the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
Dalai LamaYou can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma GandhiMy son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.
David BowieThe side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.
Angelina JolieI had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
Audrey Hepburn