Famous Quotes & Sayings

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.

Gretchen Rubin

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Gretchen Rubin

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Gretchen Rubin

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Gretchen Rubin

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Gretchen Rubin

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

Gordon B. Hinckley

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gladys Taber

Happiness is a thing of now.

Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Herbert Spencer

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herman Melville

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.

Herman Melville

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Henry David Thoreau

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Henry David Thoreau

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

Henry David Thoreau

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

Henry David Thoreau

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Henry David Thoreau

I love the broad margin to my life.

Henry David Thoreau

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Jillian Michaels

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Jeremy Bentham

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Jeremy Bentham

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

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.