Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucille Ball

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Lucille Ball

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Lucinda Williams

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Margaret Oliphant

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Michel de Montaigne

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michel de Montaigne

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Michel de Montaigne

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel de Montaigne

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Michel de Montaigne

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Michel de Montaigne

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Michael Korda

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Markus Zusak

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Markus Zusak

But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.

Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Mark Twain

To be busy is man's only happiness.

Mark Twain

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

J. Taylor

Several of the smart bettors were happy to be on.

She was more happy about that than I think anything else.

Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Alexandre Dumas

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Retief Goosen

Obviously there's a long way to go still but I'm very happy to start off like this. You can't win the tournament in the first round so I'm just going to keep playing well and see what happens.

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror