Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Gide

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Andre Gide

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Andre Gide

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Anatoly Karpov

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

Anatole France

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Anatole France

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anais Nin

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

Anais Nin

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Anne Frank

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

Anne Frank

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

Live with the objective of being happy.

Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Anne Frank

I believe in the sun, even when it rains.

Andrew Weil

The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Andrew Weil

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

Chuck Palahniuk

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Christopher McCandless

Happiness only real when shared.

Anne Bradstreet

I happy am, if well with you.

Angelina Jolie

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Angelina Jolie

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

Angelina Jolie

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

Andrew Carnegie

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Andrew Carnegie

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

Andrew Carnegie

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrea Thompson

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

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....