Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Jay Baruchel

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Muriel Spark

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Kirk Kerkorian

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

Kirsten Dunst

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

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.

Moliere

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

J. K. Rowling

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

J. K. Rowling

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

H. L. Mencken

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

H. L. Mencken

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

H. L. Mencken

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

Jeanne Calment

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Giacomo Leopardi

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Giacomo Leopardi

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Hunter S. Thompson

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hubert H. Humphrey

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.