All Quotes By Tag: Happiness
“Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?”
“That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach – I’m not sure I’d grasped that exactly, but I’d got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.”
“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”
“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”
“I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.”
“…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.”
“Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.”
“It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns … As long as we’re not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.”
“One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.”
“Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!”
“It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.”
“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”
“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”
“Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.”