Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Brian Tracy

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Brian Tracy

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Brian Tracy

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

Brian Tracy

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

Brenda Ueland

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brad Pitt

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

Juvenal

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]

John Stuart Mill

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Garth Brooks

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

We really had to look around. They were all down in the basement. He wasn't one to toot his own horn. He was more happy seeing others succeed. You could see the happiness in his eyes.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Benjamin Franklin

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

Anton Chekhov

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

Anton Chekhov

The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.

Anton Chekhov

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

Anton Chekhov

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Anton Chekhov

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Anton Chekhov

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

bell hooks

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

bell hooks

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Baltasar Gracian

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Ariel Gore

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.