Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Joe Walsh

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Joanne Harris

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

James Taylor

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

James Thurber

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Smithson

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Emily Dickinson

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Ella Maillart

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Ella Fitzgerald

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Edward de Bono

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

Edward de Bono

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward Albee

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Carrie Underwood

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Holbrook Jackson

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Hermann Hesse

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Hermann Hesse

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Henry Van Dyke

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Henry Van Dyke

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be strong is to be happy!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.