#happines

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. ↗

— Tom Ford

#city #country #escape #film #get

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#always #beauty #being #being responsible #believer

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#because #difficult #easier #film #got

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #human #inspirational #understand

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#famous #fervor #happiness #her #marriage

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ↗

— Heraclitus

#envy #happiness #lasts #longer #our

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#convinced #depends #events #far #happiness

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cheap #easy #might #source #very

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. ↗

— James Thurber

#bound #confusion #kind #lead #minutes

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ↗

— Francis Hutcheson

#best #greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #numbers