Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alphonse Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Andy Rooney

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Rooney

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Warhol

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Andy Warhol

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Andy Warhol

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

Andy Warhol

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

Andy Warhol

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

Andre Gide

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Andre Gide

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Andre Gide

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Anatoly Karpov

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

Anatole France

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Anatole France

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anais Nin

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

Anais Nin

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Anne Frank

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

Anne Frank

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

Live with the objective of being happy.

Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Anne Frank

I believe in the sun, even when it rains.

William Shakespeare

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

Aeschylus

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

Mary Gordon

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

William Shakespeare

You have stayed me in a happy hour.

We were just happy that Wisconsin was selected at all,

Richard Bach

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Richard Bach

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Robert Foster Bennett

While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.