Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.
MAHATMA GANDHI Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
MAHATMA GANDHI Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is n...
MAHATMA GANDHI Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is n...
MOHANDAS GANDHI We must be doing something to be happy.
WILLIAM HAZLITT You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
BOB DYLAN No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA We must be doing something right.
AMY HILL I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER Sure most of us are 'happy'. Happy when we're shopping or drinking in the pub. Try being happy for j...
CHERYL RUSHTON It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery...
WILLIAM GLASSER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Granted, we've conceded a few early goals but we must be doing something
right to win seven on t...
DAVID JAMES We have so many young players. My role is to keep them focused. That's not always easy. But we must ...
LINDSEY BRUNO I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy,...
EVA ZEISEL Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be generous with your
time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
the other p...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Recognise how much
you have to give.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Although happiness is a state
of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to b...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Commit to being happy and
make the choices that will
support your commitment.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be courageous in your
decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Don’t rely on the opinions of others.
Only you will know what is
right for you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Unless you have the
courage to say ‘no’ to
the things you don’t want,
it’s ha...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be honest with yourself.
You can’t be the best
you can be unless you know
who you r...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI It’s easy to be brave when
everything is going your way.
When the going gets tough,
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI To be happy, you need to do
the right thing for you,
even when it feels like the
hard...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Don’t take your happiness for
granted. Be proactive about
maintaining and sustaining it<...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI There is a big difference between
being self-ist and being selfish—
putting yourself fir...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI The only person who can
take responsibility for your
happiness is you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Being the best you can be
takes courage. You need to own
your decisions and have the
...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI The most important
commitment you will ever make
is to being the best you can be.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Most people are fine with fine
and okay with okay.
If you want to be the best you
can...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Very few changes in life are
achieved without effort and a
commitment to making that effor...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI When you decide to be the best
you can be, don’t be surprised
if the circle of people yo...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Live your life with courageous
integrity. Do the right thing,
not the easy thing.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI If someone tries to undermine
your commitment, re-evaluate
your commitment to them.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Identify your driving motivation
and you will have all the
encouragement you need.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Give the people you love the
best of yourself, not the worst.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Sometimes being happy will
require some difficult conversations.
Some of those conversatio...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest.
ANUROOP TYAGI Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
NASH GRIER Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time f...
DOUGLAS ADAMS People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
HELEN KELLER We must be doing something right - 1.3 million people choose to work for Wal-Mart.
AMY HILL We must be doing something right -- 1.3 million people choose to work for Wal-Mart.
AMY HILL This party's been here for 27 years. We must be doing something right.
MAURENE KENNEDY To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Practice smiling, it's good for you to smile
SOTONYE ANGA I love to see me smile, so i go stand before a mirror and just smile
SOTONYE ANGA When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be want what, in fact,...
C.S. LEWIS If you pity his loneliness, be his company...
PHILIP T. M. People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be some...
UFUOMA APOKI It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a d...
OSCAR WILDE We didn't know which way it would go, so it was a happy surprise. This is just a wonderful acknowled...
CORINNE MARRINAN The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Thousands of people are applying to work at every store we open. We must be doing something right.
AMY HILL You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals sho...
MADDY MALHOTRA Always choose to be happy 'cause sadness can knock your door anytime.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Don't ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.
SHANNON L. ALDER I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
DAVID KARP One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT 7 Rules to a Happy Life:
1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
JONNY LEE MILLER You can be right or you can be happy.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOY So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
BELA FLECK I want people to be happy.
BEBE REXHA Advice to my younger self:
1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hur...
GERMANY KENT Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those
persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT