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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.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Running
  • Happiness
  • More

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Nice
  • Something
  • Event

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happiness

• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Family
  • Service
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Thanks

• 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
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Desert

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness
  • Animal
  • Equality

• What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Always
  • Something

• My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Dad
  • Something
  • Musician

• Self-confidence is a must for a fulfilled life. If you have a divine self-confidence, you know how fortunate you are. Study yourself, you have awareness and infinite power within you. choose to build an image in your marvelous mind of what you want to do. Happiness, health and prosperity will be your rewards.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Happiness
  • Awareness
  • Fortunate

• The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Emotions
  • Image

• Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Moments
  • Never
  • Greatness

• It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

  

  George Washington
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty
  • Crime

• 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.

  

  Ring Lardner
  • Happiness
  • Something
  • Accomplishes