Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornelia Funke

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

David Lynch

If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-sized wakefulness; and as you go about your day, a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

Confucius

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

Confucius

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Confucius

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Confucius

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Confucius

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Confucius

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Daniel Webster

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

Daniel Webster

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

David Lee Roth

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

David Geffen

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

David Eddings

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Deepak Chopra

Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.

Anders Hejlsberg

Happiness comes from within

Anna Quindlen

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

Anna Quindlen

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Hershey

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Alfred de Musset

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.

Alfred Hitchcock

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

Alphonse Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Andy Rooney

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Rooney

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Warhol

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

I talked to Tony and he's happy now.

He just works hard and never says much. I'm just very proud and happy for him.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding

Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Marc Bulger

For me personally, this is as happy as I've been going into the year,