To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.
My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn't you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
