Happiness Destroyed Quotes

#1. Why not seize the pleasure at once?
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

#2. Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

Dennis Lehane

#3. Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

Roger Ebert

#4. It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

Charles Addams

#5. Our goal is to create a beloved community and
this will require a qualitative change in our souls
as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#7. the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

Bill Kurtis

#9. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Steve Maraboli

#10. It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved and perhaps the kindest thing I ever did in my life was never to let Matthew know to what degree he had destroyed my peace and my happiness.

Stephen Fry

#11. Small business creates more jobs than large corporations.

Kevin McCarthy

#12. I just want to do cool stuff.

Rob Corddry

#13. The ordinary man places his life's happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

George Plimpton

#15. When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.

Laura Riding

#16. I miss it like an ex-con misses the other inmates.

Megan Miranda

#17. Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Aeschylus

#18. The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.

Arthur Rimbaud

#19. But what does that mean?

Rakesh Satyal

#20. When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.

Marina Tavares Dias

#21. A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

R. K. Milholland

#22. Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger.

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives
DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dale E. Turner

#24. Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

Ruth Fishel

#25. The world is full of places to which I want to return

Ford Madox Ford

#26. Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.

Cesare Beccaria