Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryant H. McGill

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Celia Green

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Alan Lightman

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Alain de Botton

Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

Alain de Botton

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.

Alain de Botton

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

Alain de Botton

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Alain de Botton

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Charles Kingsley

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Blaise Pascal

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Blaise Pascal

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Blaise Pascal

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Blaise Pascal

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Blaise Pascal

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Blaise Pascal

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Blaise Pascal

Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God

Billie Joe Armstrong

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Edward Norton

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising

Antisthenes

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

We're happy to have him back. But we want him to come back when he's ready and healthy.

Tony Dungy

We're happy for Mike. I don't know what the league's rationale is on it, but I'm sure they looked at all the facts.

Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Ben Stein

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Barbara de Angelis

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

Barbara de Angelis

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Barbara de Angelis

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

Ashley Montagu

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Bernie Siegel

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Brian Tracy

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

Brian Tracy

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.