Happiness Smoking Quotes

Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel. ~ Chris Sullivan

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us - and this is remarkable - the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea. ~ Rich Mullins

That's what I like about [smoking] ... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag? ~ Beth Henley

Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income. ~ John Medina

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? ~ Franz Kafka

I've always been one to prefer dimbling down country lanes on me own cod mumbling to myself in some kind of mad ecstasy with a strange feeling of happiness in my step. ~ Andy Gibbons

Regardless of your past, of your own beliefs, I promise you that you are worthy of the remarkable life you so want to live. ~ Toni Sorenson

Thing in good marriage is not happiness but stabilty . ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask." ~ Brian Tracy

In absolute and general perfection lies stifling monotony and death. Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

You will be happy, when you connect to the source of life, God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war. ~ Roberto Bolano

If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid. ~ Epifanio De Los Santos

Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been. ~ Norris B. Finlayson

That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life. ~ Carlton Mellick III

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

We keep waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness. But this is it. Right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love right now, and you'll have an amazing life. ~ Barrie Davenport

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change ~ Barbara De Angelis

God has formed us moral agents ... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own. ~ Thomas Jefferson

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present. ~ Danny DeVito

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ~ James Allen

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace. ~ Debasish Mridha

I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy. ~ W.J. Raymond

When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell. ~ N.R. Walker

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. ~ Dale Carnegie

She says you should never wake dreaming people suddenly,' Rahel said. 'She says they could easily have a Heart Attack.'

Between them they decided it would be best to disturb her discreetly rather than wake her suddenly. So they opened drawers, they cleared their throats, they whispered loudly, they hummed a little tune. They moved shoes. And found a cupboard door that creaked.

Ammu, resting under the skin of her dream, observed them and ached with her love for them....

...'If you're happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count' Estha asked,
'Does what count?'
'The happiness--does it count?'
She knew exactly what he meant...
...Because the truth is, that only what counts counts. The simple, unswerving wisdom of children. ~ Arundhati Roy

It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness. ~ Ernesto Cardenal

A pipe is greater than a bong. Because when you're smoking a pipe at least it makes you look like you're thinking about something. ~ Demetri Martin

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful ... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. ~ Amy Carmichael

The word 'happiness' does indeed have meaning, doesn't it? I shall go out in search of it. ~ Mariama Ba

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Interpreters package and then sell, rent, or impose upon us artificially flavored illusions of truth, salvation, enlightenment, and happiness that are built upon their goals. That twisted information and those errant goals and are often very different from those of the original teachers that these interpreters are borrowing moral authority from. Following our own inner guidance would yield better results than following the village idiot. Neither Buddha nor Jesus was waiting for a Buddha or a Jesus to come solve their personal problems or those of humanity. The key to whatever we need is within us. The job of uncovering it is ours to do. ~ Doug "Ten" Rose

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had. ~ Preeti Shenoy