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

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 alegria de fazer o bem é a única felicidade verdadeira.

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.

I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom that springs from the soul.

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

Some people think success is overnight. I suppose, considering I came from Australia, it has been pretty quick. But I have a background in stand-up and improv, so I've really had to prove myself.

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

You cant substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.