Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

How fares it with the happy dead?

Aldous Huxley

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Aldous Huxley

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Aldous Huxley

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Albert Einstein

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Alexander Pope

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Albert Schweitzer

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

Albert Schweitzer

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

E. L. Konigsburg

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Doug Larson

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.