Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Helen Keller

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

George Eliot

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

George Eliot

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

George Eliot

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Franz Schubert

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Francoise Sagan

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

Chris Hardwick

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

Christopher Alexander

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

J. B. Priestley

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

J. B. Priestley

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. C. Ryle

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Jim Carrey

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Jim Carrey

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?

Jeb Bush

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness.

Jennifer Grant

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Georges Bernanos

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

George Sand

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

George Sand

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.