Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Greene

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

Goldie Hawn

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Goldie Hawn

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Goldie Hawn

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Gisele Bundchen

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Ian Anderson

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Hugh Walpole

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Prather

I'd rather be happy than right.

Hugh Prather

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

Hugh Prather

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Hosea Ballou

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Horace

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Guy de Maupassant

Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

Gottfried Leibniz

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Gillian Flynn

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

James Brown

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

James Freeman Clarke

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Giacomo Leopardi

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Giacomo Leopardi

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Gilda Radner

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Frank Herbert

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

George H. W. Bush

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

Haim Ginott

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.