Philip Seymour Hoffman Happiness Quotes & Sayings

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it. — Brenda Ueland

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. — Bertrand Russell

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue. — Hallie Ephron

I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. — Caskie Stinnett

And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself — Chris Marker

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting. — Mahatma Gandhi

When human pain has struck me fiercely, when anger has corroded me, I rise, I always rise after the crucifixion, and I am in terror of my ascensions. THE FISSURE IN REALITY. The divine departure. I fall. I fall into darkness after the collusion with pain, and after pain the divine departure. — Anais Nin

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching. — Frances Hesselbein

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation ... Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic. — Billy Graham

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I'm often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term 'Token Chick.' So it's been such a great, great gift in my life. — Cheryl Ladd

Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate. — Nicholas Roe

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. — Caitlin Moran

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning. — Kenneth Goldsmith