Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Strindberg

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

August Wilson

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Audrey Hepburn

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Audre Lorde

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arnold Bennett

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Denis O'Hare

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

Denise Levertov

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Denis Waitley

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

Denis Waitley

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Denis Waitley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Gretchen Rubin

Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.

Louisa May Alcott

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertrand Russell

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Bertrand Russell

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Cassie Ventura

Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

Carolyn Wells

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Mark Richardson

We want him to live the rest of his life in happiness and we want to be a part of his life as we possibly can. We love him very much.

Agnes Martin

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

Agnes Martin

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Repplier

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.

Agnes Repplier

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Agnes Repplier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Charlotte Bronte

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.