Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Edith Wharton

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Edith Wharton

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Edith Wharton

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Edith Wharton

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

David Hume

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

David Hume

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

David Hume

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

David Dunn

To praise is an investment in happiness.

Beatrice Wood

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

August Strindberg

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

August Strindberg

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

August Wilson

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Audrey Hepburn

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Audre Lorde

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arnold Bennett

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Denis O'Hare

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

Denise Levertov

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Denis Waitley

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

Denis Waitley

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Denis Waitley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Deepak Chopra

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Deepak Chopra

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

Deepak Chopra

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

Deepak Chopra

Real bliss is to have peace of mind.

Deepak Chopra

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.