Quotes On Happiness Biography
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
~Jack London
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. ~Gloria Steinem
I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do.” ~ Jana Standfield
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~John Quincy Adams
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ~Bob Marley
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~Andy Warhol
”Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.” ~Sam Levenson
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~William Shakespeare
“If you have time to judge other people you have way too much time on your hands. Get off your ass and do something meaningful.” ~Shane Gibson
“You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.” ~Steven Brust
”At some point everyone must decide if they are a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.” ~Author Unknown
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” ~Blaise Pascal
“To define is to limit.” ~Oscar Wilde
“The trouble with having an open mind, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ~Terry Pratchett
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ~John Lennon
“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Christopher Robin (to Pooh)
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
“I think I am, therefore, I am. I think…” ~George Carlin
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” ~e.e. cummings
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~Guillaume Apollinaire
“All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~Charles Schulz
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.” ~Mark Twain
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill
“Be silent, or say something better than silence.” ~Pythagoras
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” ~Stephen King (Different Seasons)
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” ~Vincent van Gogh
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.”
~Mother Teresa
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.” ~Lisa Wilson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” ~Emerson
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On Conformity. . .
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself” ~Rita Mae Brown
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~Oscar Wilde
“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box” ~Twyla Tharp
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” ~Johann Sebastian Bach
“Be yourself — not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t bend; water it down; or make it logical; don’t edit your soul for fashion. Follow intense obsessions mercilessly.” ~Franz Kafka
“All I can be is me — whoever that is.” ~Bob Dylan
“You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.” ~ F. Perl
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.” ~A. A. Milne
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~Steve Jobs
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” ~André Gide
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” ~Ray Bradbury
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” ~Gore Vidal
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~Barbara Kingsolver
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance” ~Unknown
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~Steve Jobs
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” ~André Gide
“There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.” ~Hindu proverb
“Poor is the soul whose pleasure depends upon the permission of another” ~Madonna
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” ~Oscar Wilde
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
”There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
‘I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.’
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What’s right for you–just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.” ~Shel Silverstein
“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.” ~Leo Buscaglia
”We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ~Dr. Seuss
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~Emerson
“Resist much. Obey little.” ~Walt Whitman
”If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” ~Joseph Campbell
If you can’t beat them, join them. If you can’t join them, it’s probably because you just tried to beat them. ~Unknown
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~Robert Frost
“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” ~Kenneth Tynan
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” ~Bono
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” ~Jack Kerouac
“Do not compromise yourself. You are all you have got.” ~Janis Joplin
”Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.” ~Albert Camus
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ~Kurt Cobain
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Quotes On Happiness
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Quotes On Happiness
Quotes On Happiness
Quotes On Happiness
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
~Jack London
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. ~Gloria Steinem
I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do.” ~ Jana Standfield
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~John Quincy Adams
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ~Bob Marley
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~Andy Warhol
”Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.” ~Sam Levenson
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~William Shakespeare
“If you have time to judge other people you have way too much time on your hands. Get off your ass and do something meaningful.” ~Shane Gibson
“You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.” ~Steven Brust
”At some point everyone must decide if they are a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.” ~Author Unknown
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” ~Blaise Pascal
“To define is to limit.” ~Oscar Wilde
“The trouble with having an open mind, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ~Terry Pratchett
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ~John Lennon
“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Christopher Robin (to Pooh)
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
“I think I am, therefore, I am. I think…” ~George Carlin
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” ~e.e. cummings
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~Guillaume Apollinaire
“All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~Charles Schulz
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.” ~Mark Twain
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill
“Be silent, or say something better than silence.” ~Pythagoras
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” ~Stephen King (Different Seasons)
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” ~Vincent van Gogh
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.”
~Mother Teresa
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.” ~Lisa Wilson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” ~Emerson
.
On Conformity. . .
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself” ~Rita Mae Brown
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~Oscar Wilde
“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box” ~Twyla Tharp
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” ~Johann Sebastian Bach
“Be yourself — not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t bend; water it down; or make it logical; don’t edit your soul for fashion. Follow intense obsessions mercilessly.” ~Franz Kafka
“All I can be is me — whoever that is.” ~Bob Dylan
“You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.” ~ F. Perl
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.” ~A. A. Milne
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~Steve Jobs
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” ~André Gide
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” ~Ray Bradbury
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” ~Gore Vidal
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~Barbara Kingsolver
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance” ~Unknown
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~Steve Jobs
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” ~André Gide
“There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.” ~Hindu proverb
“Poor is the soul whose pleasure depends upon the permission of another” ~Madonna
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” ~Oscar Wilde
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
”There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
‘I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.’
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What’s right for you–just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.” ~Shel Silverstein
“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.” ~Leo Buscaglia
”We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ~Dr. Seuss
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~Emerson
“Resist much. Obey little.” ~Walt Whitman
”If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” ~Joseph Campbell
If you can’t beat them, join them. If you can’t join them, it’s probably because you just tried to beat them. ~Unknown
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~Robert Frost
“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” ~Kenneth Tynan
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” ~Bono
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” ~Jack Kerouac
“Do not compromise yourself. You are all you have got.” ~Janis Joplin
”Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.” ~Albert Camus
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ~Kurt Cobain
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