Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Bertrand Russell

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

He was so well-liked, and so happy here.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Elbert Hubbard

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Elbert Hubbard

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Elbert Hubbard

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

William Keeler

As a student of history, I'm very happy to be in a place where our history is lifted up so much,

No, she was always the same, very upbeat, very happy. She was very private. She was not social with a lot of people in the club, but she was always upbeat.

Everything was working, but I was really happy with the slider.

Charles Kuralt

Sometimes I would think myself happy never to leave. Every trip must end.

Sarah is happy and relieved that this part of it is all over.

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

At the start of the year, I pray for the happiness of the Japanese people and peace in the world.

They were happy together and to me, that makes me happy.

Robinson Cano

They were happy. They want me to be there and get ready for the season.