When America is chasing you the whole world is chasing you.

I shall take the heart. […] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it. 

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.

You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of humanity inside yourself.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. 

Happiness, you see, it’s just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there’s no happily ever after. You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness – though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. 

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. 

I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy. 

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Everyone always says When you look at a boy band one of them has to be gay. No they dont.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership only because they dont want to seem too aggressive too smart unattractive or too male.

The function of the killer and watching him – whatever that says about the world in which we live – it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

I dont think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

If you live to be a hundred I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08 because its just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.

I dont do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Im always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution but I find in television and film most of the producers are women.

I must be the only person in Strictly history whos actually put on weight during rehearsals.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.

What happens to the Microsofts Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough they dont think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.

My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me you know? I kind of wore him out.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

People wait around too long for love. I’m happy with all of my lusts!

My mum had four kids on her own so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. Ive seen so many nannies in the park on their phones and the kids are running off.

Thinking back on it Ive been in this business since I was 3 and I grew up in musical theater so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

Im the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

I don’t understand the point of being together if you’re not the happiest.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. 

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. 

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. Im a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A they are always using interesting ingredients but B there is always a story behind it.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. 

I think vestigially theres a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in The Lion King. I wanted to sing The Circle of Life.

Id really love to get back into commercials actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly they pay really well.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world correct and the opposite came to me through newspapers. Homicide adultery no-hit pitching and Balkanism were concepts that I would have encountered much later in life.

Its a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste judgement deduction.

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.

Wrestling in Japan obviously the fans are a little bit different – very quiet very respectful in New Japan – but here in the WWE these fans are going nuts.

If I keep taking my good swings swing at the right pitches good things will happen.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much and influence is never entirely good.

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my fathers musical equipment and earned some money. As a child I wasnt sure about a career goal but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets specially musical equipment.

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results youre after you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them its important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

Now occultism is not like mystic faculty and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want but you cant stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping then we are crossing the line into something else.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think thats something more Americans should think about.

Theres parts of it that I connect to – being a father and everything – but Mamma Mia! allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. Ive never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.

If you want to teach women to be great writers you should show them the best and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women if were going to be truthful.

Mints business model became Well go for free and then well find these savings opportunities for you. You know better interest rate on your credit cards when should you consolidate your student loans when does it mathematically make sense to refinance your mortgage

Animals keep you company when youre really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what – its harder to feel bad or down.

If your team is in the trenches youve got to be in the trenches with them.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice we cannot have both.

When computer systems cause errors you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO – the not in good order transaction.

Im portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

A philosopher once said Half of good philosophy is good grammar.

There must be a story within him/her that wants to come out. Thats the reason why Dil Chahta Hai Lagaan and Rang De Basanti worked so well: Ashutosh Farhan and Rakesh had a story inside them. Its very important that the director should have the fire in the belly to tell the story.

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

Until Friday Night is the first book in my new young adult series The Field Party.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.

Lukewarmness I account a sin as great in love as in religion.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. ―Audrey Hepburn

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. ―John 11:25

Easter is the one morning in all of history where the dawn came twice; once on the eastern horizon and again in eternity. ―Craig D. Lounsbrough

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter. ―David Housholder

Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance. ―Reba McEntire

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was. ―Aberjhani

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. ―Watchman Nee

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. ―James E. Faust

Do not abandon yourselves to despair: We are the Easter people, and Hallelujah is our song. ―Pope John Paul II

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives. ―Russel M. Nelson

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy. —Goldie Hawn

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ―Thich Nhat Hanh

Where there is love, there is joy. ―Mother Teresa

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ―Joseph Campbell

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. —Carlos Santana

Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be filled with joy. ―Anonymous

She found joy and wonder in every little thing. And joy and wonder always found her. ―Katrina Mayer

The joy that isn’t shared dies young. —Anne Sexton

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. ―Albert Einstein

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. ―Charles Dickens

A joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together. ―Brene Brown

Find ecstasy in life: the mere sense of living is joy enough. ―Emily Dickinson

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.―Franklin D. Roosevelt

To have joy in your heart, one must know how to appreciate the small things in life. ―Anonymous

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. —Gabrielle Roy

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ―Nicolas Chamfort

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ―Mark Twain

Change your name in your friend’s phone to “Mom”.  Then start sending hilarious messages.

Sneak in a toy snake inside the refrigerator or at the grocery store.

Screenshot their desktop, remove all of their icons, and then set the screenshot as the background.

Scatter pennies in random spots and let the person find them. Then, start placing more and more pennies.

Hide a baby monitor or walkie-talkie in a closet or ceiling and meow into it.

Put a plastic wrap inside their shampoo or body wash bottle.

Make up news that all work and school are cancelled because of a heavy snowstorm on the way.

Fill a mayonnaise jar with yogurt or vanilla pudding and eat it with a spoon in front of people.

Leave a note on someone’s car that says “sorry about the damage, had to leave”.  Watch them look all over the car for the non-existent damage.

Make getting ready in the morning a little more challenging for everyone in the family by switching the underwear from one person’s drawer to another.

Act extremely happy and tell your best friend that you and your ex are already engaged.

Block the mouse sensor with a funny picture.

Give them chocolate. While they’re eating, tell them that you remembered those were not yours.

Tell your friends you signed them up for a big marathon.

Text them random stuff to make them think they subscribed to it.

Send a message to your friend that you need to tell them something. Then never respond

Text a gif of the “typing” symbol and let your friends wait for a response that never comes.

Put battery-powered alarm clocks inside their room and set same time to alarm altogether.

Tell them you hid 10 items when in fact you only hid nine.

Change the TV or phone language settings from English to German, Spanish or French.

Tell them to expect a prank, and then don’t do anything.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. —Shannon L. Alder

She drove me to ballet class…and she took me to every audition. She’d be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that’s why this [award] is for her. She’s a wonderful mother. — Elisabeth Moss

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne. — Mabel Hale

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great—but how to laugh through it. —Liza Minnelli

I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day. —Michelle Obama

My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point. — Lupita Nyong’o

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. — Erin Kelly

You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.—Kevin Durant

I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman. —Hillary Clinton

Right, except I’m not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?— John Green

The films I’ve made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best. —Emma Thompson

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me. —Lady Gaga

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched. —Barack Obama

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met. —Marguerite Duras

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy. —Angelina Jolie

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. —James Joyce

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. —Charlotte Gray

It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.—Debra Messing

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was 6 and my brother was 8; I never forgot it. —Stephen King

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. —Kate Winslet

A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. —Mark Twain

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. ―Michael Jordan

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. —Robert A. Heinlein

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. —Booker T. Washington

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness. — Shannon L. Alder

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ―Toni Morrison

There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss. ―Saleem Sharma

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. —Gail Tsukiyama

My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice. — Amy Sedaris

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it. —Tom Hiddleston

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. ―Charles H. Spurgeon

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ―Lana Del Rey

Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. — Barbara Kingsolver

As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines. —Cindy Crawford

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry. —Unknown

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England. ―John Wesley

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it. ―Liza Minellie

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ―Agatha Christie

[Motherhood is] heart-exploding, blissful hysteria. — Olivia Wilde

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. —Sophia Loren

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ―Zora Neale Hurston

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. — Lin Yutang

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ―Oscar Wilde

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ―Stevie Wonder

The mother, more than the father, is the one who molds and shapes those little lives from day one. ―John MacArthur

My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.—Emma Stone

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. ―Louisa May Alcott

I think, Womanliness means only motherhood. ―Robert Browning

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.  ―George Washington

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ―Karl Lagerfeld

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. —P.J. O’Rourke

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. ―Laura Stavoe Harm

The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart. ―Henry Ward Beecher

There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. ―Sophie Kinsella

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. ―Martina Hingis

Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough. ―Marie O’Connor

Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together. —Susan Gale

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life… She was the love of my life. —Mindy Kaling

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. ―Sophocles

He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. ―J.K. Rowling

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. ―Gilbert Parker

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. —Diana, Princess of Wales

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. ―Jodi Picoult

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. ―Walker Percy

If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning. ―Unknown

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. ―Antonio Villaraigosa

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ―Barbara Kingsolver

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. ―Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ―Victor Hugo

[Mother] stood, always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. ―Eudora Welty

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ―Erich Fromm

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. ―Unknown

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. ―Billy Sunday

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. —Tenneva Jordan

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. —Marion C. Garretty

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. —Unknown

friendship-quotes

Best friends: they know how crazy you are and still choose to be seen with you in public

CRAZY FRIENDS QUOTE

I love people I can be crazy with

friends-quotes

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly

best-friendship-quote

Life is better with friends

true-friendship-quote

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face