Ring Lardner Quotes
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
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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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
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Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
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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.
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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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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
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It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.
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I never really expected to be controversial.
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The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
