Tim Ferriss Quotes
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.Tim Ferriss
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
Sabrina Carpenter -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
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.
Tara Brach -
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
Tecumseh -
'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
Kate Winslet
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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 -
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson -
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi -
'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
C. S. Lewis -
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
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You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.
Fritz Perls -
True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.
Marvin J. Ashton -
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Queen of Scots -
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
Aristotle -
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
Aristotle -
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.
Aristotle
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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
Aristotle -
To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
It's a lot of people that's tried to stop my grind, there's been a lot of hate, but even more love.
Ace Hood -
It'd be negligent to say that I don't want to be at the top of the charts. Of course I do, it's proof that your song is being heard. But I think it's more about the work for me and being proud of what I'm doing in music than what people think about my music. I want to like my music before you like it. I don't want to sell anything that I don't really like. I don't want to sell myself short just to get to the top of the charts. It doesn't feel that great. Feeling proud of your work feels greater than being at the top of the charts.
Brandy -
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
Tim Ferriss