#happiness

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#be happy #becoming #causes #consider #denying

I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#amazing #bigger #budgets #care #dictates

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#allowing #art #being #change #child

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#door #god #graciously #granting #happiness

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ↗

— Michael Novak

#happiness #love #love is #sacrifice #willingness

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ↗

— Sophocles

#breathing #call #corpse #happiness #him

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

You find happiness where you find it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#happiness #where #you

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#engine #happiness #having #i #i think

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil