Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ellery Channing

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Wayne Dyer

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

Saint Augustine

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

Wolfgang Schauble

You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

Mila Kunis

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

Jon Mead

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just stop caring.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Laura Bush

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

Julianne Moore

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

Patton Oswalt

There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

Elizabeth Gilbert

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

Elizabeth Gilbert

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

Joel Osteen

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

Joel Osteen

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

Joel Osteen

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

Joel Osteen

When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

Joel Osteen

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

Heidi Klum

Success is to be Happy in Life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

Henri Nouwen

A happy life is a life for others.

Heywood Broun

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Jim Rohn

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

Diego Della Valle

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

Ben Affleck

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

Ai Weiwei

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

Brian Wilson

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

Brian Murphy

I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Adele

Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

Ani Difranco

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.