Aristotle Quotes
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.Aristotle
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
Ramana Maharshi -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
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 -
Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. Hunt
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
Ibrahim Hooper -
Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
K. Flay -
I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
Kailash Kher -
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Vanilla Ice -
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid -
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
Carlo Collodi -
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith -
The environment shapes people's actions.
B. F. Skinner -
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
C. S. Lewis -
Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.
Bill Ballance -
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker -
I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
Vivienne Westwood -
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
Aristotle