Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.