Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Albert CamusLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother TeresaThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxUnless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Dr. SeussI love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.
Kevin HartIf all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand RussellOne who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John RuskinI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthurSome may never live, but the crazy never die.
Hunter S. ThompsonThis 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 don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles DickensWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarPeople want to feel hopeful.
Michelle ObamaSpread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother TeresaIf thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EpicurusThe sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.
John F. KennedyMoney doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerPeople deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat HanhAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark TwainThis world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. EisenhowerNothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye WestMan’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiAgeing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
George H. W. BushMy life is real.
Nipsey HussleIt is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
Warren BuffettThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas JeffersonYou want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
Jerry SeinfeldMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George OrwellAs we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.
Fidel CastroThe best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Robert Baden-PowellMost of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous HuxleyKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar WildeVirtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Lou HoltzThe health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin DisraeliLife is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Muhammad AliOff with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van BeethovenIf someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?
Joyce MeyerPeople always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye WestHuman life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel JohnsonOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonRemember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. NixonI feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.
Joel OsteenHowever happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
Paulo CoelhoLife is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald ReaganI never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.
Taylor SwiftWhat’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
Henry FordHad I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.
Richard BransonFor me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice WalkerIf my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Isaac AsimovWe might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinI have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.
Dwight D. EisenhowerContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinHe has the most who is most content with the least.
DiogenesLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Kurt VonnegutNo matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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