Jun Matsumoto Quotes
The most important thing in bringing happiness is that you’re ready to do it, you want to do it, and you’re determined to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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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.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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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.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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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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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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'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.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.
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There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
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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 actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.
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That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.
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I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.
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The most important thing in bringing happiness is that you’re ready to do it, you want to do it, and you’re determined to do it.
