Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Wright

Our happiness usually is conditioned by the kind of home, job, car, clothes, etc., we have, which in a way makes us slaves to matter.

Our happiness comes from the land and work and the traditional lifestyle. We're preserving what makes us happy.

Cate Blanchett

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

V. S. Pritchett

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Sharon Jones

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

Saul Bellow

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Alexandra Stoddard

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

Halldor Laxness

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

We're not too happy about anything right now.

Thomas Hood

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

David Lynch

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Bette Midler

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

Sri Chinmoy

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

Patrick Ness

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

Richard Eyre

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Richard Eyre

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Walter Landor

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

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

A. C. Benson

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

A. E. Housman

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

A. A. Milne

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

Aeschylus

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Agatha Christie

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Agatha Christie

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Adam Yauch

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

Adam Weishaupt

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Adam Smith

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

Adam Smith

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Michael Leunig

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

True happiness comes from doing what's right not just doing what makes you feel good.