Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did make a lot of progress from last week so I'm happy about that.

Jessica White

I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.

Jane Austen

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Jane Austen

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Booker T. Washington

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Bobby Sands

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arizona Muse

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

Antonio Porchia

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Anwar Sadat

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Bruce Lee

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

Brittany Murphy

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Edward Young

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Edmund Burke

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness