Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

George Porter

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

Garth Brooks

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

George Edward Woodberry

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Fernand Braudel

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

Flannery O'Connor

I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.

Flannery O'Connor

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

Fiona Shaw

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Fiona Shaw

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

Henry Miller

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Helen Keller

Be happy. Talk happiness.

Helen Keller

Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

Helen Keller

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Helen Keller

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

Helen Keller

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.