Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

Honore de Balzac

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Honore de Balzac

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Honore de Balzac

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Honore de Balzac

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Honore de Balzac

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Honore de Balzac

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

He and I have a long relationship, so it makes me happy to see him here.

Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.

Michael Leunig

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Dorothy Dix

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.

Mark Twain

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it

Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Ivan Turgenev

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Iris Murdoch

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

James Buchanan

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Iyanla Vanzant

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

Isaac Disraeli

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Immanuel Kant

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Immanuel Kant

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

Immanuel Kant

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.