Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

Ellen Glasgow

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

Ellen Glasgow

Happiness is a hardy annual.

Ellen Glasgow

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Ellen Glasgow

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Epicurus

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Epicurus

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Epicurus

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Epicurus

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epictetus

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Epictetus

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

God has made all men to be happy.

Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Emily Dickinson

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

Emily Dickinson

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be strong is to be happy!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henri Rousseau

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henri Matisse

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.