Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhuangzi

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Zhuangzi

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Youssou N'Dour

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

Twyla Tharp

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Twyla Tharp

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

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

Happiness is an inside job.

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.

Wavy Gravy

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

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.

Walter Lippmann

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Voltaire

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

William Feather

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

William Ralph Inge

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

William Ralph Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Butler Yeats

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

William Butler Yeats

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

William Butler Yeats

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

William Butler Yeats

My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

William Butler Yeats

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which....

Wilhelm von Humboldt

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself--nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Walter Savage Landor

Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

Walter Savage Landor

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

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Scott

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Winifred Holtby

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

Winifred Holtby

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

Winston Churchill

All wisdom is not new wisdom.