Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that’s what they do in ‘Harry Potter’: The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they’ve been near the Dementors! – Jane Siberry
I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting – you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don’t seem that happy. – Amy Chua
The words that I’m most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that’s the same with music, really. If you’re doing an album, there’s ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times – it’s difficult. – Bernard Sumner
‘A Bug’s Life’ is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I’m like, W’hoa, I’m feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!’ – Booboo Stewart
I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible. – A. J. McLean
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child’s becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. – Clyde Edgerton
If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life. – Anne Hathaway
I’m so happy to be a song-writer – I’m even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
So this is why I’m always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer
I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I’ve never suffered. I’ve never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I’ve played. – Alison Pill
When you’re in New York, people don’t say, ‘We’re happy you came to New York.’ In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here. – JR
I don’t think there’s a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I’ll be happy to deal with it. – Josh Hartnett
My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy. – Apolo Ohno
I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again. – Arthur Freed
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. – Bertrand Russell
Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a ‘pretty girl.’ Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I’m sent, and they describe the heroine as ‘incredibly beautiful,’ I wonder why they sent it to me. – Anna Kendrick
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don’t accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods. – Julian Baggini
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month – three months – with nothing to do but write. – Bernhard Schlink
I’ve grown up a lot, and I’ve realized that what I need to make myself happy is the people around you. – Jessie J
You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it’s constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you’ll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes. – Alexandra Kleeman
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn’t set up their business model to make writers happy. It’s just a nice unintended consequence. – Aaron Sorkin
What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did. – Joyce Meyer
I am now a member of the private sector. I’m happy. I’ve got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot. – Bill Richardson
I’m happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy. – ASAP Ferg
