Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Alexander Pope

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Albert Schweitzer

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

Albert Schweitzer

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

E. L. Konigsburg

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Doug Larson

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Doris Lessing

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

Dale Carnegie

Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

Dale Carnegie

Create happiness for others.

Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

Dale Carnegie

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Dale Carnegie

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

Daniel Boone

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

E. B. White

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

Douglas Horton

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Douglas Horton

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Douglas Horton

Smile, it's free therapy.

David Lynch

If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-sized wakefulness; and as you go about your day, a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

Confucius

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

Confucius

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Confucius

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.