But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star. 603
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. 657
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’ 631
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. 611
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness. 573
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? 681
When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for ‘Popworld’ and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness. 699
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. 603
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. 768
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. 650
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. 1.23K
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. 678
