Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Planck

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

May Sarton

I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.

Matthieu Ricard

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Matthieu Ricard

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Matthew Arnold

The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

Matthew Arnold

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Matthew Arnold

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Maxwell Maltz

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Maya Angelou

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Maurice Chevalier

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Matthew Quick

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Marilyn vos Savant

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

Pablo Neruda

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the language of the soul.

Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Martin Seligman

Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

Martin Seligman

Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

Martin Seligman

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

Laini Taylor

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

Johnny Depp

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

John Updike

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

John Suckling

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

John Stuart Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Ray

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

John Ralston Saul

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

Martin Luther

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

Mark Steyn

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.