Happiness Trap Quotes

#1. How rude could you get? She was treating a boy she'd only just met as an inferior being. The only other person I can think of who does that is a Saiyan prince.

Wataru Watari

#2. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.

David Levithan

#3. What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything.

Sally Field

#4. If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.

Oliver Sacks

#5. Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. This is nothing but an illusion! We cannot take money with us into the life beyond. Money does not bring us happiness.

Pope Francis

#6. I suppose that I am ambitious.

Antonio Banderas

#7. Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward. Separate from them and the result of your action will be a life of success.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#8. Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster around each other in housing developments - a group force pervades and keeps the beings out.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I care about what people think of my heart, my music, my passion.

Jessica Simpson

#10. You can't do it better without teamwork.

Ogwo David Emenike

#11. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.

Carlos Fuentes

#12. He asked a simple question and expected no answer. "Is polygamy an eternal principle?

Lynn K. Wilder

#13. There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.

Nat Faxon

#14. How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.

Lesley Lokko

#15. Painted by a gentle dawn
one is proud that like one's own
planet now one will not wince
at what one is facing, since
putting up with nothing whose
company we cannot lose
hardens rocks and -rather fast-
hearts as well. But rocks will last.

Joseph Brodsky

#16. Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Judy Grahn

#17. It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy.

Hank Stuever

#18. Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

Dave Barry

#19. I've only ever leapt away
when happiness approached -
a deer caught in headlights,
or maybe a dog with its
leg bleeding in a trap.

Darshana Suresh