I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family and an unhappy family? We're probably both of those things at the same time.
Life is [perceived as] a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.
A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).
If you don't wake up every day happy, change something.
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".
I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.
Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.
Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!
When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.
Just do what makes you happy. . . . sounds simple, doesn't it ?
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
