My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. 2.6K
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. 746
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we’re happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth. 1.66K
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don’t for a long time. 783
Time the great destroyer of other men’s happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. 1.01K
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn’t happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage. 2.03K
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. 669
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. 1.9K
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 686
I love being on stage. I’m completely, totally relaxed. It’s the only time in my life when I know where I am and what’s coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let’s just say happiness isn’t my default position. There are dark parts. I’m very good at it. I frighten people sometimes. 834
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. 1.63K
Aye, I’m tellin’ ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else. 682
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. 746
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. 703
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. 683
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. 676
