Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?