Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Antisthenes

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

We're happy to have him back. But we want him to come back when he's ready and healthy.

Tony Dungy

We're happy for Mike. I don't know what the league's rationale is on it, but I'm sure they looked at all the facts.

Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Barbara Sher

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.

Barbara Sher

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Augustine Birrell

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augusten Burroughs

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Art Buchwald

This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

Ayelet Waldman

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Craig Ferguson

There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.

Connie Sellecca

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Coco Chanel

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

Coco Chanel

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Elias Canetti

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

B. C. Forbes

Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy.

B. C. Forbes

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

Arthur Helps

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.

Ben Stein

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Barbara de Angelis

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

Barbara de Angelis

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Barbara de Angelis

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

Ashley Montagu

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Bernie Siegel

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Brian Tracy

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

Brian Tracy

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.