Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Neil Gaiman

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Nassau William Senior

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

Myrtle Reed

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

Morris West

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Mort Walker

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

John Ruskin

All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.

John Ruskin

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

A happy new year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world.

Ruth Benedict

The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical

This is my last race. I'm very happy. I'm done with skating. I'm very happy with what I've done and what I've got.

All in all we are very happy with the results.

Philip Sidney

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Marlene Dietrich

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Max Planck

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

May Sarton

I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.

William Keeler

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

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

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

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.

William Wordsworth

A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.

So we keep working until we find a happy medium.

There's a lot to be happy about right now.

There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.

They have a track record of putting out happy numbers.

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.

Walt Kyle

You're never happy with a tie; you're trying to win. The reality is we have to come back and play tomorrow, and whatever the outcome tomorrow is, we have to come back and play again.