Joyce Grenfell Quotes
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
Karen Salmansohn -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
Viggo Mortensen -
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
Omar Bongo -
If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
R. J. Cutler
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
V. E. Schwab -
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
Samuel Adams -
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael -
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Viktor E. Frankl -
My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
Jack Ramsay
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara De Angelis -
A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
Wanda Sykes -
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field -
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer -
I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
Narendra Modi
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
Aristotle -
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Books played virtually no role in the polytheistic religions of the ancient Western world.
Bart Ehrman -
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
Ernest Mandel -
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Joyce Grenfell