Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

William Wordsworth

A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.

Bronson Arroyo

Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.

Tyler Cowen

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

Antisthenes

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Augusten Burroughs

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Ayn Rand

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

Bryant H. McGill

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

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Alan Mulally

We were on a very positive track and this is just a sad thing for all of us,

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Turkish Proverb

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Amelia Barr

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Victor Hugo

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Elie Wiesel

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

Clive Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid. That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aeschylus

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Alex Garland

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Andre Leon Talley

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Susan Sontag

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.