Famous Quotes & Sayings

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....

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.

Anne Sexton

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Anne Sexton

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice....

Anne Rice

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anna Howard Shaw

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

Andre Maurois

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

Andre Maurois

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Ambrose Bierce

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Alice Walker

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Alice Walker

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Meynell

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Cary

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Alphonse de Lamartine

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Aesop

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.