We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people’s happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people’s lives has been severed. 693
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. 528
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. 607
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change. 597
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. 593
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it’s okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. 572
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. 1.8K
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world. 572
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself. 591
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family’s life but change your ghetto’s life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. 529
My mum’s always on at me to have children and blames ‘that stupid stage thing you do’ for me not already having a family. 538
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. 561
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. 563
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. 2.09K
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. 549
If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too. 563
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. 2.44K
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. 555