Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwayne Roloson

You're never happy when you lose. It's playoff hockey. You've got to win. We'll take it. We'll use it to our advantage. We'll be ready to go on Sunday.

Candace Bushnell

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

This is a new one from a historical point of view. I am really very happy.

This is great, especially after struggling the last two years. It's happiness and relief all in one.

Russell Simmons

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

Russell Simmons

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

Sam Levenson

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Susan Sarandon

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Solon

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Steve Jobs

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

Mother Teresa

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

God never sends us more than we can handle.

Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Pearl S. Buck

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl S. Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Peter Ustinov

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Pema Chodron

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.