Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough. ”

With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to have black representation on television. That response is so overwhelming and so strong that I just have to express my own gratitude for it, because I understand the necessity for it. ”

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy. ”

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me. ”

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. ”

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. ”

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one. ”

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being. ”

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. ”

It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there. ”