#happines

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#because #happiness #how #interesting #known

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#circumstances #demand #difficult #entirely #give

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#brings #challenges #courage #dignity #experience

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be happy #forever #good #great #happiness

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#berserk #big #big head #came #child

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#insipid #rarest #seems #taste #vintage

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

#earth #error #evil #found #greatness

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#catch #constitution #gives #only #people

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ↗

— Sophocles

#happiness #part #supreme

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. ↗

— Sophocles

#depends #our #way #wisdom