Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Jim Carrey

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Jim Carrey

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?

Jeb Bush

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness.

George Eliot

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Franz Schubert

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Francoise Sagan

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

Francoise Sagan

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Chris Hardwick

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

Christopher Alexander

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

George Porter

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

Garth Brooks

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

George Edward Woodberry

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Fernand Braudel

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

Feist

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

Fay Weldon

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.

Fanny Brice

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.