A alegria de fazer o bem é a única felicidade verdadeira.

Quase sempre a maior ou menor felicidade depende do grau de decisão de ser feliz.

“O dia mais mal gasto de todos é aquele em que não nos rimos.”

“A felicidade é um fruto que se colhe da felicidade que se semeia.”

“Sofremos demasiado pelo pouco que nos falta e alegramo-nos pouco pelo muito que temos…”

Só há felicidade se não exigirmos nada do amanhã e aceitarmos do hoje, com gratidão, o que nos trouxer. A hora mágica chega sempre.

A felicidade não é uma estação de chegada, é uma forma de viajar.

Não existe um caminho para a felicidade. A felicidade é o caminho.

O maior problema e o único que nos deve preocupar é vivermos felizes

Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

Por cada minuto que nos zangamos, perdemos 60 segundos de felicidade.

A felicidade não é algo que apareça pronto a consumir. Esta vem a partir das nossas próprias acções.

A felicidade não se encontra nos bens exteriores.

Não busque a felicidade fora, mas sim dentro de você, caso contrário nunca a encontrará.

Muitas pessoas perdem as pequenas alegrias enquanto aguardam a grande felicidade.

Não há que ter vergonha de preferir a felicidade.

A felicidade é composta de pequenos prazeres.

Não devemos permitir que alguém saia da nossa presença sem se sentir melhor e mais feliz.

Não há satisfação maior do que aquela que sentimos quando proporcionamos alegria aos outros.

Tenho certeza de que se eu sorrisse menos teria menos amigos.

O bom humor espalha mais felicidade que todas as riquezas do mundo. Vem do hábito de olhar para as coisas com esperança e de esperar o melhor e não o pior.

A nossa felicidade será naturalmente proporcional em relação à felicidade que fizermos para os outros.

A felicidade é um bem que se multiplica ao ser dividido.

O segredo da felicidade é encontrar a nossa alegria na alegria dos outros.

Para ser feliz, é necessário pensar na felicidade de um outro.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

Nudity quickly becomes unremarkable when generally practiced.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.