Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
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I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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The fact is there should not be any mercury in any vaccine.
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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
