Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

Alain de Botton

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Alain de Botton

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Charles Kingsley

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Blaise Pascal

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Blaise Pascal

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Blaise Pascal

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Blaise Pascal

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Blaise Pascal

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Blaise Pascal

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Blaise Pascal

Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God

Billie Joe Armstrong

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arizona Muse

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

Antonio Porchia

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Anwar Sadat

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Bruce Lee

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

Brittany Murphy

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Edward Young

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Edmund Burke

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Edward Norton

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Booker T. Washington

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Bobby Sands

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.