I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

If 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.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I 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.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.