Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Samuel Adams

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Orson Scott Card

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

There he was, so happy. It's a memorable picture because it's in the very spot where he was killed about two months later.

Nicole Johnson

To be in his presence, you were happy.

To say that I am happy is an understatement.

Billy Graham

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Edgar Bergen

To think that this was once Happy Valley.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Frederic Chopin

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

We would have liked to have got a lead going back to Waterhouse, but a happy stalemate. we have all to play for in the next round.

We would be happy if they'd just take them all and get rid of them.

Kurt Vonnegut

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Julia Child

MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH.

Washington Irving

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Gary Wright

Our happiness usually is conditioned by the kind of home, job, car, clothes, etc., we have, which in a way makes us slaves to matter.

Our happiness comes from the land and work and the traditional lifestyle. We're preserving what makes us happy.

Overall, I am really happy with how we played. Erick pitched really well. He threw strikes and located well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Bill Crawford

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

C. S. Lewis

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

C. S. Lewis

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

C. S. Lewis

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

C. S. Lewis

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

C. S. Lewis

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Bette Davis

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

Bette Davis

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Bernard Berenson

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Bill Vaughan

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Bill Hicks

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Brian Duffy

I think they're really going to be happy to get here.