I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness because who I am today I am completely content to be.
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn and can't keep and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
You take away all the other luxuries in life and if you can make someone smile and laugh you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me particularly given my medical history.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Every gift which is given even though is be small is in reality great if it is given with affection.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the government those rescued last or not at all were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.