Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mencius

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Melody Beattie

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

Ovid

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

Ovid

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Paul Newman

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

Marya Mannes

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Mary Wortley Montagu

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Mary Higgins Clark

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Margery Allingham

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Oswald Chambers

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Pat Conroy

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Julia Roberts

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Rhonda Britten

Invest in the life you have to get the life you want.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Karl Marx

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx

There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.

Joseph Joubert

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Moliere

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Jose Rivera

I want to be better, and it's something that I like. I'm very happy.

Hans Christian Andersen

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Hans Christian Andersen

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

Hans Christian Andersen

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Greta Garbo

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.