Happiness Takes Effort Quotes

#1. Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.

Everett Peacock

#2. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

Jane Fonda

#4. I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

Robert Smith

#5. Only by resolving can a human being step into actuality, however bitter this may be to him. Inertia lacks the will to abandon the inward brooding which allows it to retain everything as as a possibility. But possibility is not yet actuality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#6. Death, it doesnt seem so scarey, you know? Not when you have got the sky over you and the wind on your face.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#7. So many people throughout my life have told me who I am, what I must do, what I can't do, what I have to complete, and what I will never be able to accomplish...and then I met the Goddess. ~ Amythyst Raine-Hatayama

Amythyst Raine

#8. Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

Nick Hanauer

#9. I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.

Lolah Lace

#10. Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most ... is yourself

William Deresiewicz

#11. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

Norman Mailer