Quotes & Sayings About Being Happy Despite Circumstances

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live. — George Vaillant

To my amusement, a traffic sign prohibited ox carts from passing by revolutionary sites, out of fear that the oxen would defecate close to these venerated monuments. These strong, resilient, and patient animals weren't merely shuffling goods along roads, but because of the limited mechanization and shortage of fuel they also plowed rice paddy fields. I got the impression that, unlike in China and Vietnam where every year is the year of a different animal, in North Korea every year was the Year of the Oxen. — Felix Abt

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness. — Meher Baba

If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process. — Cher Wang

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons. — Rush Limbaugh

If you don't shut up, how can I answer your questions! — Lucero Isaac

I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride. — Jamie Woon

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. — David Ricardo

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. — David O. Russell

I like to think of myself as a romantic person! — Luke Bracey

As I was saying. He could never use you. You own him. You should've seen the way he was looking at you while you were out."
I smiled a little. "How?"
"Like you're the ocean and he's desperate to drown. — Michelle Hodkin