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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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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

• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Others

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Happy
  • Red
  • Carpet

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

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Happy
  • Busy
  • Be Happy

• 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
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Look

• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Question

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Fun
  • You
  • Like

• The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

  

  Lalo Schifrin
  • Writing
  • Jazz
  • Easier

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  

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