Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aesop

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

A. A. Milne

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

A. A. Milne

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

A. A. Milne

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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.

Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Donny Osmond

I never smile unless I mean it.

Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Colley Cibber

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Dalai Lama

Our business is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Dalai Lama

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

Dalai Lama

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

Dalai Lama

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Dalai Lama

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Dalai Lama

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

Dalai Lama

You're happy when you help others become happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Dalai Lama

Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.