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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ~ Marquis De Condorcet
My Own Happiness quotes by Marquis De Condorcet
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that on which Egoists refuse to admit the axiom of Rational Benevolence. If the Utilitarian has to answer the question, 'Why should I sacrifice my own happiness for the greater happiness of another?' it must surely be admissible to ask the Egoist 'Why should I sacrifice a present pleasure for a greater one in the future? Why should I concern myself about my own future feelings any more than about the feelings of other persons?' ~ Henry Sidgwick
My Own Happiness quotes by Henry Sidgwick
There is only one moment; its events are infinitely unfolding, increasing at every passing second - meaning that they were somehow compressed before. This moment was never smaller, but less beauty was exposed in the physical form, yet still this flower blooms. I think we tend to see time as the events alone; in this sense, we view objects as a means of measurement to time. But we forget the place of events in time is change. I am the measurement to my own happiness; time is the breadth of that beauty, and that beauty is the measurement of this moment's grandeur. Somehow compressed, potential beauty was enfolded infinitely from the start of time, and now waits in vain for its fullest blossoming.

The fact that there is a progression to time proves that time is not infinite; you can't approach infinity. Time is more like a dot, expanding on a plane that is infinite; but that dot may as well not be growing, because the plane that its on is growing too. Stagnant, this explains what we call "now" that moment, ever unfolding; matter changes, but not the moment; the only proof that a past exists is our memories. What did it feel like to be four? Like now. My memories of a past are an illusion, because they take place in the now, the one moment. ~ Matthew Holbert
My Own Happiness quotes by Matthew Holbert
Sometimes, when I was looking out for my own happiness, I almost forgot you existed. ~ Alan Gibbons
My Own Happiness quotes by Alan Gibbons
I want to have my friend back, so I need to set him straight. I am by his side and he looks up to see me. I speak before he can say anything.
"Are you talking to me yet? Because I don't believe you're justified in your anger. I get to make my own decision about the relationships that I may or may not have. And I can choose at what pace I have that relationship. If you don't like it, then tough. You're happy - you have Bethany. Let me find my own happiness. You can't tell me what to do about this. I have to make up my own mind. Okay? ~ Isabelle Joshua
My Own Happiness quotes by Isabelle Joshua
It was only by focusing on creating joy in her life that I discovered the greatest feeling of happiness in my own. ~ Adam Braun
My Own Happiness quotes by Adam Braun
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. ~ Dalai Lama
My Own Happiness quotes by Dalai Lama
What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. ~ John Knowles
My Own Happiness quotes by John Knowles
With every change, I took a step toward my own happiness, and I strengthened the muscles that would lift me out of the place where I thought myself to be stuck. ~ Mari Andrew
My Own Happiness quotes by Mari Andrew
What is there about me that makes me the least bit desirable?" She wasn't fishing, she truly wanted to know. Right now she didn't feel very attractive
There was no joy in the laugh that seemed to catch in his throat. He closed the scant distance between them, taking her face between the warm hollows of his palms.
"Foolish girl. You are everything that is good in life. Don't you know that?"
She would have shaken her head were she not afraid that he would release her. "No. I'm manipulative and spoiled. And I think only of my own happiness."
"You are good and sweet and true." His thumbs brushed the apples of her cheeks. "Everything I am not. Everything. I want you so badly I may go mad before the Season ends. ~ Kathryn Smith
My Own Happiness quotes by Kathryn Smith
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held. ~ Chica Umino
My Own Happiness quotes by Chica Umino
Was I ever going to find someone to grow old with? Or would I continue to self-sabotage my own happiness? ~ Eliza Lentzski
My Own Happiness quotes by Eliza Lentzski
It's you, Tessa." He crawled up her body and levered her onto her side, his fingers a warm link he tunneled in under her hair. "Don't you see? For the first time, I know what's real. My life isn't about doing what everyone else thinks is right in order to be happy. Not anymore. Because I found my own happiness." The ball of his thumb swept her lips. "I found it with you." How could she not believe him, when his words were so filled with love? "Tell me what you're thinking," he said.

"I'd forgotten what it's like, you know? It's been so long…I'd just forgotten how incredible it all feels." When tears rushed her eyes, she blinked them away. So she could stay right in the moment, within the tenderness of his gaze. She placed a hand on his chest, over his heart. "I want you to know how much I appreciate everything you did for me, Dibs. You've become everything that's good and right in my life. And I'm sorry if I made things difficult for you." His eyes glistened, two sparkling bits of heaven over a thin crescent of tears.

"Rex, you're breaking my heart over here."

"I'm just so grateful, and its important to me you understand. You gave me a second chance at happiness. You know that, right? ~ A.J. Nuest
My Own Happiness quotes by A.J. Nuest
Would you ever have thought I might choose a lie for the sake of my own happiness? The Whisperer's version of happiness is an illusion
it doesn't take away your fears, it only lies about them, makes you temporarily believe you don't have them. And I know it's a lie, but what a powerful one! Maybe I'm not who I always thought myself to be. Maybe I'm the sort of person who will do anything to hear what I want to believe ... ~ Trenton Lee Stewart
My Own Happiness quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart
Don't wait for me anymore.
I hope for love for you.
I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness.
And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all. ~ Ally Condie
My Own Happiness quotes by Ally Condie
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy? ~ Jane Austen
My Own Happiness quotes by Jane Austen
Without moving her head, she turned her dark eyes toward me and answered, "Jenna, you are different from all the others who seek me. You come to me with an unselfish heart." She paused and turned her head to match her eyes. "You seek to save someone and give up your own happiness in return."

Save someone and give up my own happiness in return,I repeated again in my head, trying to understand what she meant.

"Ah, Jenna," she continued. "Don't let your mind worry you. Not everyone has happy endings. ~ Laura Burks
My Own Happiness quotes by Laura Burks
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. ~ Dalai Lama
My Own Happiness quotes by Dalai Lama
If I spend my life preoccupied with me and my own happiness, I will live life missing the deepest joy that God has for me. When ~ Matthew Kelly
My Own Happiness quotes by Matthew Kelly
This book is not addressed to the learned, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about. No profound philosophy or deep erudition will be found in the following pages. I have aimed only at putting together some remarks which are inspired by what I hope is common sense. All that I claim for the recipes offered to the reader is that they are such as are confirmed by my own experience and observation, and that they have increased my own happiness whenever I have acted in accordance with them. On this ground I venture to hope that some among those multitudes of men and women who suffer unhappiness without enjoying it, may find their situation diagnosed and a method, of escape suggested. It is in the belief that many people who are unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort that I have written this book. ~ Anonymous
My Own Happiness quotes by Anonymous
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don't know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh! ~ Donna Tartt
My Own Happiness quotes by Donna Tartt
And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive. ~ Karen Templeton
My Own Happiness quotes by Karen Templeton
The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity! ~ Dalai Lama XIV
My Own Happiness quotes by Dalai Lama XIV
I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness. ~ Walker Percy
My Own Happiness quotes by Walker Percy
Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness. ~ Donna Tartt
My Own Happiness quotes by Donna Tartt
It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; but then, such feelings continually come across the ties that our former life has made for us -- the ties that have made others dependent on us -- and would cut them in two. If life were quite easy and simple, as it might have been in paradise, and we could always see that one being first towards whom -- I mean, if life did not make duties for us before love comes, love would be a sign that two people ought to belong to each other. But I see -- I feel it is not so now; there are things we must renounce in life; some of us must resign love. Many thing are difficult and dark to me, but I see one thing quite clearly: that I must not, cannot, seek my own happiness by sacrificing others. Love is natural, but surely pity and faithfulness and memory are natural too. And they would live in me still and punish me if I did not obey them. I should be haunted by the suffering I had caused. Our love would be poisoned. ~ George Eliot
My Own Happiness quotes by George Eliot
I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness. ~ Rachel Hawthorne
My Own Happiness quotes by Rachel Hawthorne
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day. ~ Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
My Own Happiness quotes by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years. ~ Mark Nepo
My Own Happiness quotes by Mark Nepo
Dad takes a step back, one hand still on my shoulder, and reaches into his pocket. He draws out a little blue capsule, and I feel every molecule in my body screaming to run. Dad must catch the panic in my eyes - he squeezes my shoulder and holds out the capsule. "Cas, it's fine. It's going to be fine. This is just in case."

Just in case. Just in case the worst happens. The ship falls. Durga fails, I fail, and the knowledge I carry as a Reckoner trainer must be disposed of. That information can't fall into the wrong hands, into the hands of people who will do anything to take down our beasts.

So this little capsule holds the pill that will kill me if it comes to that.

"It's waterproof," Dad continues, pressing it into my hand. "The pocket on the collar of your wetsuit, keep it there. It has to stay with you at all times."

It won't happen on this voyage. It's such a basic mission, gift-wrapped to be easy enough for me to handle on my own. But even holding the pill fills me with revulsion. On all my training voyages, I've never had to carry one of these capsules. That burden only goes to full-time trainers.

"Cas." Dad tilts my chin up, ripping my gaze from the pull. "You were born to do this. I promise you, you'll forget you even have it." I suppose he ought to know - he's been carrying one for two decades.

It's just a right of passage, I tell myself, and throw my arms around his neck once more. ~ Emily Skrutskie
My Own Happiness quotes by Emily Skrutskie
I rebel against authority, especially my own. ~ Christy Leigh Stewart
My Own Happiness quotes by Christy Leigh Stewart
Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you.
Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun. ~ John Michael Hayes
My Own Happiness quotes by John Michael Hayes
I'd never thought of aqua as a particular offensive color before, but looking at those bedspreads, I knew that next school year I was totally banning anything even approaching that shade from any school dance decorations. I'd never be able to look at it again without wanting to slit my own throat. ~ Rachel Hawkins
My Own Happiness quotes by Rachel Hawkins
But the original was there as well - more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side ~ Sarah Dessen
My Own Happiness quotes by Sarah Dessen
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own. ~ Paul Engle
My Own Happiness quotes by Paul Engle
Stop living within the confines of how others define you! You weren't created to live their life; you were created to live yours - so LIVE it! You can reignite that fire within and bring the passion back into your goals, dreams, ambitions, careers, and relationships by reclaiming control of your own life. Be unapologetically YOU! ~ Steve Maraboli
My Own Happiness quotes by Steve Maraboli
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own. ~ Terence McKenna
My Own Happiness quotes by Terence McKenna
Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own. ~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
My Own Happiness quotes by M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
Maybe Justin, my students, spoiled me for people my own age, usually so boring, talking about their endless health problems, pros/cons of being cremated, not realizing they're already dead in the most tragic way. ~ Alma Luz Villanueva
My Own Happiness quotes by Alma Luz Villanueva
I never follow anybody's path, what they've done. ~ Famke Janssen
My Own Happiness quotes by Famke Janssen
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away. ~ Charles Dickens
My Own Happiness quotes by Charles Dickens
On Stripping Bark from Myself

(for Jane, who said trees die from it)

Because women are expected to keep silent about
their close escapes I will not keep silent
and if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone will
please
mark the spot
where I fall and know I could not live
silent in my own lies
hearing their 'how nice she is!'
whose adoration of the retouched image
I so despise.

No. I am finished with living
for what my mother believes
for what my brother and father defend
for what my lover elevates
for what my sister, blushing, denies or rushes
to embrace.

I find my own
small person
a standing self
against the world
an equality of wills
I finally understand.

Besides:

My struggle was always against
an inner darkness: I carry within myself
the only known keys
to my death – to unlock life, or close it shut
forever. A woman who loves wood grains, the color
yellow
and the sun, I am happy to fight
all outside murderers
as I see I must. ~ Alice Walker
My Own Happiness quotes by Alice Walker
I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know. ~ Queen Latifah
My Own Happiness quotes by Queen Latifah
No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service. ~ William Godwin
My Own Happiness quotes by William Godwin
When my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
My Own Happiness quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda
I couldn't believe how into this girl I was, and we'd only been talking for twenty minutes. I was also dressed in gym clothes, because I'd been to the gym earlier. She looked down and saw the rubber bracelet around my wrist.
"Is that an 'I Am Second' bracelet? I have one of those!" she said as she held up her wrist with the band that means, "I am second after Jesus."
"No, this is my own bracelet with my motto, 'Train like a Machine,' on it. Just my little self-motivator. I have some in my car. I'd love to give you one."
"Well, actually, I am about to leave. I have to go work out before my shift," she reminded me.
"You can have this one. Take it off my wrist. This one will be worth more someday because I've been sweating in it," I joked. ~ Noah Galloway
My Own Happiness quotes by Noah Galloway
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull ... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. ~ Allen Ginsberg
My Own Happiness quotes by Allen Ginsberg
I have never, nor will I ever, have an issue with anyone's sexuality. Gay, straight, bi, lesbian, it doesn't matter to me. I believe everyone has a right to find their own happiness. I would never ridicule or stand in the way of love, ~ Anonymous
My Own Happiness quotes by Anonymous
The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way. ~ Anjelica Huston
My Own Happiness quotes by Anjelica Huston
I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing. ~ Ginuwine
My Own Happiness quotes by Ginuwine
I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life. ~ Annie Lennox
My Own Happiness quotes by Annie Lennox
Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way induce God to live for me. Therefore to possess God we must allow Him to possess our soul.5 ~ Mother Teresa
My Own Happiness quotes by Mother Teresa
My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue. ~ Jack Kilby
My Own Happiness quotes by Jack Kilby
I'm the villain, even in my own story. ~ Stephanie Garber
My Own Happiness quotes by Stephanie Garber
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. ~ Richard Attenborough
My Own Happiness quotes by Richard Attenborough
I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world . ~ Nicholas Brendon
My Own Happiness quotes by Nicholas Brendon
Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thing, we will be free. But the opposite is true. By trying to be independent, we are attempting to take God's place as the ruler of our lives. We can never succeed at creating happiness because we are the created, not the Creator. ~ Pauline Creeden
My Own Happiness quotes by Pauline Creeden
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. ~ Sri Aurobindo
My Own Happiness quotes by Sri Aurobindo
To me, music and songwriting is ... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that ... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words. ~ Page Hamilton
My Own Happiness quotes by Page Hamilton
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