Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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.

L. Ron Hubbard

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

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.

Kami Garcia

If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.

Ovid

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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.

Rebecca West

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

Woody Allen

I hope you're getting this down.

William Ellery Channing

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

Richard Rohr

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Satchel Paige

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Wayne Dyer

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

Wayne Dyer

Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life

Werner Erhard

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Salma Hayek

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

Wendy Cope

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

Rodney Dangerfield

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Walt Whitman

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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?

Vladimir Putin

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

Voltaire

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

William Butler Yeats

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Rufus Sewell

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

W. Somerset Maugham

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

Wolfgang Schauble

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