Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Bernie Siegel

Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.

Chad Kroeger

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Coco Chanel

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

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.

Aristotle

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Jane Austen

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

Jane Austen

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Charlotte Bronte

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

David Talbot

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

Campbell Newman

Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Jamie Redknapp

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

Charles Spurgeon

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.

Louis C. K.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Elie Wiesel

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Calvin Trillin

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.