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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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Fun is about as good a habit as there is.
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In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
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The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.
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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
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It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
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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.
