Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holbrook Jackson

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Hermann Hesse

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Hermann Hesse

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Henry Van Dyke

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Henry Van Dyke

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Joseph Addison

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Joseph Addison

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Jose Saramago

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

Kevin Bacon

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Kurt Cobain

You can't buy happiness

Khalil Gibran

Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

Khalil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Jonathan Swift

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Jonathan Swift

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.

Jonathan Swift

If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Jonathan Swift

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Jonathan Swift

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Napoleon Hill

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Lucian

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Louis Auchincloss

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Louis D. Brandeis

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Lorenzo Snow

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

Lord Byron

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!