Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

How fares it with the happy dead?

Aldous Huxley

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Aldous Huxley

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Aldous Huxley

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Albert Einstein

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

Walter Landor

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

A. C. Benson

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

A. C. Benson

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

A. E. Housman

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

A. A. Milne

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

Aeschylus

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Agatha Christie

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Agatha Christie

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Marianne Williamson

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

V. S. Pritchett

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror

I was happy for them, but I'd rather it had been the Huskies.

John Calipari

I was happy for Joey. One of the things we had talked about was getting him more looks. He stepped up and we did that.

I was really surprised and really happy as well.