Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Bryant H. McGill

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Jane Austen

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Carl Davis

There are no happy times at Happy Times .

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Anton Chekhov

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

bell hooks

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Diane Arbus

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Arthur Ashe

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.

Amanda Peet

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.

Jerry Summers

You do not be a victim of a gang rape and then go to a football game and cheer them on.

Thomas Hughes

From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Thomas Hughes

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Thomas S. Monson

Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you.

Thomas S. Monson

Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.

Thomas Sowell

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

Eileen Caddy

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Dolly Parton

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

Tom Shadyac

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Rumi

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

Marlo Thomas

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

Abraham Lincoln

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Evan Esar

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

Jean Cocteau

I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.