Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Abraham Maslow

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

Abraham Maslow

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Abraham Lincoln

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Alberto Giacometti

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

Albert Einstein

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Albert Einstein

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

Albert Einstein

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

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.

Anthony de Mello

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...

Althea Gibson

I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Alma Guillermoprieto

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Anne Sexton

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse....

Anne Sexton

All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.