Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carter Burwell

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Elbert Hubbard

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Doug Larson

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

Dan Buettner

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

Dalai Lama

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Debby Boone

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Anna Seward

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Cindy Sheehan

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

Andrew Cuomo

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

Brian Eno

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Billy Connolly

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

Ben Chandler

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Charlie Hunnam

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

Carl Jung

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Slavoj Zizek

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Sam Levenson

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Rumi

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

Penelope Cruz

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Sophia Bush

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Tina Turner

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

Susan Hampshire

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

Susan Hampshire

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

Kelly Preston

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

R. A. Salvatore

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Roseanne Barr

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Sarah McLachlan

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

Reba McEntire

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

Venus Williams

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

W. H. Auden

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.