But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.
Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.
I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!
You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.
Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.
I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.
I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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.
I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.
I have times when I doubt what I'm doing. When those moments hit, I think about how grateful I am to be able to do what I do every day. It was harder when I started because I didn't see the response, but now I'm out there playing for people and seeing them happy, which makes it all worthwhile.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.
I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'
I'm not the kind of person who sits off by myself and ignores everyone. I like to be happy!
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.
Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.
I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.
I'm going to make this T-Shirt up saying, 'you can either be right or be happy.'
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.