Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

Alastair Campbell

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Alastair Campbell

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?

Alastair Campbell

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Albert Camus

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

Albert Camus

There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

Albert Camus

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

Albert Camus

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Albert Camus

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

Albert Camus

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Albert Camus

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

Albert Camus

... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

Albert Camus

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

Albert Camus

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Albert Camus

Find your happiness in yourself.

Albert Camus

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

D. H. Lawrence

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

D. H. Lawrence

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

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.