Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Porter

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porter

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Jane Roberts

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

Euripides

Account no man happy till he dies.

Euripides

No one is happy all his life long.

Euripides

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Euripides

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Ethan Suplee

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

Ethan Hawke

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

Ernie Banks

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Ernest Shackleton

Optimism is true moral courage.

Evangeline Lilly

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Muriel Spark

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Kirk Kerkorian

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

Kirsten Dunst

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

Moliere

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Katherine Mansfield

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

Julian Casablancas

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Kitty Kelley

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

Ivan Turgenev

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Iris Murdoch

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Harry S Truman

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Immanuel Kant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

J. K. Rowling

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

J. K. Rowling

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

H. L. Mencken

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.