Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jennifer Grant

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Georges Bernanos

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Christopher Hampton

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Gaston Bachelard

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

Gaston Bachelard

There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

Fulton J. Sheen

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Germaine Greer

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

Neale Donald Walsch

In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life in the physical realm is glorious, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness of who you really are. So go into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about yourself.

Neale Donald Walsch

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Neale Donald Walsch

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

Neale Donald Walsch

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

Milarepa

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

Milan Kundera

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

Milan Kundera

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

John Adams

Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected... a passion for distinction.

John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Harvey Ball

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

Harvey Mackay

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

George Arnold

Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

A happy new year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world.