I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already. - Anthony Bourdain
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be. - Anthony Bourdain
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing. - Anthony Bourdain
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves. - Confucius
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King Jr
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. - Audrey Hepburn
Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.
I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. - Pablo Picasso
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. - Beethoven
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! - Beethoven
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. - J.K. Rowling
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. - Helen Keller
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves. - Helen Keller
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