Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Gore

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

Ariel Gore

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

Anthony Trollope

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Diane Duane

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Diane Arbus

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Diane Arbus

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

Diane Ackerman

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Delphine de Girardin

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Demetri Martin

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

Dean Koontz

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Daniel Gilbert

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Daniel Gilbert

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Daniel Gilbert

Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.

Daniel Gilbert

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

Daniel Gilbert

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Daniel Handler

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arizona Muse

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

Antonio Porchia

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Anwar Sadat

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Bruce Lee

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

Brittany Murphy

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.