Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

H. L. Mencken

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Marquis de Sade

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Nikki Giovanni

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Nikki Giovanni

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Nikki Giovanni

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Mary McCarthy

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Nicholas Sparks

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Nicholas Sparks

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Nicholas Sparks

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Muhammad Ali

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Marilyn Monroe

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

Frank Herbert

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

George H. W. Bush

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

Haim Ginott

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

H. P. Lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Jean de la Bruyere

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de la Bruyere

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Jay Baruchel

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Byron Nelson

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Oprah Winfrey

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.

Oprah Winfrey

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

Oprah Winfrey

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.