I think happiness is love.
Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.
I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
If he gave an assignment, he didn’t really care how it was done or who did it or what problems they had. It just had to get done, and that was that.
It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.
If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.
Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, All I really want in this life is to be happy? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I dont think so. Ill bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless youre willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.
The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to except and what to let go.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I’m always smiling and happy.
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
