Bolesław Prus Quotes
Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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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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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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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.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.
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There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
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You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.
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First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
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Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.
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There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
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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.
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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
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Shoji Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.
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The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.
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Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
