Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Demetri Martin

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

Daniel Handler

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alicia Keys

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Jessica Lynch

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Howard Thurman

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Iyanla Vanzant

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.