Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Ray

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

John Ralston Saul

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

James Russell Lowell

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

James Russell Lowell

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Laurence Sterne

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Laurence Sterne

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Friedrich Schiller

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Friedrich Schiller

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

Friedrich Schiller

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Frederick the Great

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

George Gissing

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Johnny Carson

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

Johnny Carson

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

Johnny Carson

Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

Luigi Pirandello

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Ludwig van Beethoven

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Luc de Clapiers

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Nigella Lawson

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

Nicolas Chamfort

I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

Nicolas Chamfort

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Nicki Minaj

Don't stay watching happiness, make it.