Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Rousseau

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henri Matisse

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

Henri Nouwen

In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.

Herodotus

Call no man happy before he dies.

Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Heinrich Heine

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

Heraclitus

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

Henry Ward Beecher

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

Henry Ward Beecher

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Henry James

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

John Krasinski

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error; and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Haruki Murakami

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.