Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Edith Wharton

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

David Hume

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

August Strindberg

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

August Strindberg

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Denise Levertov

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Gretchen Rubin

Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.

Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Cassie Ventura

Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

Charlotte Bronte

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Charles de Lint

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Chandra Wilson

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Billy Wilder

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Byron Katie

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Buddy Guy

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Cathy Guisewite

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

Deepak Chopra

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

Edward Gibbon

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Charles Kuralt

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Bob Newhart

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bernard Williams

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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