“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

— Lucille Ball

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American actress and businesswoman 1911–1989

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: That Perfect Someone

“You can search the world for happiness but you won't find it until you start being content with what the Almighty has already given you.”

Ismail ibn Musa Menk (1975) Muslim cleric and Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe.

31 May 2016 https://twitter.com/muftimenk/status/737814141872820224
Twitter

“Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer”

Eric S. Raymond (1957) American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement

"How to become a Hacker", reprinted in an appendix to The Cathedral and the Bazaar (2001), p. 196

“One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.”

Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer

Source: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 276

“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

“Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.”

Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer

Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin

“Fear of suffering is a great obstacle to being a happy person in life. God wants us to be happy. Asceticism is not supposed to make us sad. It’s supposed to free us to be able to understand and do what God wants. He wants our happiness. He wants us to bring happiness to others.”

Alfred Clifton Hughes (1932) Roman Catholic archbishop

Source: 60 Years A Priest: An Interview with Archbishop Alfred Hughes https://nds.edu/blog-entry/60-years-a-priest-an-interview-with-archbishop-alfred-hughes/

“what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. xxxi

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

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