Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Paul

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Jean Paul

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

Jean Paul

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jerome K. Jerome

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Jerome K. Jerome

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Jerome K. Jerome

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Jesse McCartney

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jennifer Lopez

You've gotta do things that make you happy.

Jean Giraudoux

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Jean Giraudoux

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Jean Ingelow

I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music within and a song, And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long. I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes: Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled.

James Cagney

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

James A. Baldwin

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

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.

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.

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

Honore de Balzac

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Honore de Balzac

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Honore de Balzac

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Honore de Balzac

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.