Famous Quotes & Sayings

Immanuel Kant

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Jim Carrey

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

Jeff Bridges

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

Gary Vaynerchuk

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Morrie Schwartz

When you learn to die, you learn to live.

Louise Hay

There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it.

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Gene Simmons

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Garth Brooks

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

John Frusciante

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Gabrielle Reece

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Joe Pantoliano

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Joan Jett

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Heidi Klum

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Helen Rowland

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Josh Hartnett

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

R. A. Salvatore

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

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.

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.

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.

Tina Yothers

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

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?

Pamela Anderson

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Kelly Preston

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

Stephen Fry

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.