Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.

Wayne Dyer

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.

Wayne Dyer

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

Wayne Dyer

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

Ursula K. Le Guin

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Rodney Dangerfield

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

Robertson Davies

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Robert Southey

It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Penn Warren

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Robert Penn Warren

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Saint Augustine

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

Saint Augustine

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Winston Churchill

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Tristan Bernard

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

William Arthur Ward

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

Wilferd Peterson

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Washington Irving

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

William Feather

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Butler Yeats

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more....

Walter Savage Landor

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.