Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Scovel Shinn

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Flannery O'Connor

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.

Flannery O'Connor

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

Fiona Shaw

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Fiona Shaw

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

Henry Miller

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Helen Keller

Be happy. Talk happiness.

Helen Keller

Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

Helen Keller

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Helen Keller

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

Helen Keller

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.

Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Helen Keller

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

George Eliot

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

George Eliot

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Gottfried Leibniz

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Gillian Flynn

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

James Brown

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

James Freeman Clarke

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.