Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Midler

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

Gretchen Rubin

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

Sri Chinmoy

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

Curtis Mayfield

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Nicki Minaj

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Paula Cole

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

Simon Cowell

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Taissa Farmiga

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

I think we're perfectly happy not to be mentioned by Princeton Review.

Cyril Connolly

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Cyril Connolly

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Dan Millman

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Dan Millman

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Corrie Ten Boom

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.

Cornelia Funke

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Conan O'Brien

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

E. V. Lucas

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

James Young

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

ASAP Ferg

I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

Helen Fisher

I think the happiness we find, we make.

Henry Drummond

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

We'd be happy to take a look at it, but they need to show a revenue source.

Undoubtedly did more than we wanted to do, but I'm very happy with the way she's going.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

Fanny Burney

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Elizabeth Bibesco

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Thalia

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

There are a lot of happy vehicle owners in Suffolk tonight.

Charlize Theron

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.