Quotes About Happiness

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

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.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Not me. I'm happy in the middle. That's where the crowd is. And where there's a crowd, there's usually a party.

We were supposed to write why we're excited about the grand opening and, well, balloons are always my favorite part.

I'd like to quote the lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein—something that's extremely easy to do when you're in a library near 782.14 and all those magnificent Broadway show tunes—'I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly!'

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

Independent inquiry is essential in our search for truth. Each of us must strive to actively discern truth for ourselves rather than simply looking to or relying upon external authority figures to give it to us. If we allow another person or group to give us truth, or merely accept their truth as our own, we are depending on someone else for our spirituality, for our enlightenment, for our happiness, our success, etc.

Pero la psicología moderna nos dice que los individuos sanos y felices también tienen un profundo sentido de propósito. Es decir, representan valores apreciados, se sienten conectados con otras personas y están al servicio de causas más nobles que ellos mismos y sus egos.

She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.

everywhere I looked, people were smiling, like convicts who had just staged a daring escape and couldn't quite believe they had gotten away with it.

How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you othervise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

the nest is agiggle with excitement.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

I owe my life to my hobbies—especially stamp collecting

Plötzlich habe er denken können, sagt er, was er nie für möglich gehalten: daß er die Blume des Glücks überall pflücken solle, wo sie sich ihm biete.