Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Marian Anderson

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marguerite Duras

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Yourcenar

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

Nicholas Breton

Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad?

Naguib Mahfouz

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Princess Diana

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Princess Diana

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Publilius Syrus

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

Publilius Syrus

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Pratibha Patil

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Pierre Salinger

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Nelson Mandela

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

Nelson Mandela

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Groucho Marx

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

Groucho Marx

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Graham Greene

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

Graham Greene

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

Goldie Hawn

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Goldie Hawn

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Goldie Hawn

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Gisele Bundchen

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Ian Anderson

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Hugh Walpole

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Prather

I'd rather be happy than right.

Hugh Prather

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

Hugh Prather

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.