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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
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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.
Karen Salmansohn
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
Omar Bongo
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
Carine Roitfeld
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz
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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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.
Dan Stevens
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer
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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.
Gail Devers -
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
Bat for Lashes
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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.
Mahershala Ali
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Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
Quentin Blake
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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.
Yami Gautam
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
Ernest Hemingway
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What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
Theresa May
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We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
Vince Cable
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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.
Bolesław Prus