Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epicurus

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Epicurus

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Epicurus

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Epicurus

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epictetus

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Epictetus

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

God has made all men to be happy.

Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Emily Dickinson

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

Emily Dickinson

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Ella Maillart

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Ella Fitzgerald

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Edward de Bono

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

Edward de Bono

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward Albee

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Carrie Underwood

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Napoleon Hill

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Og Mandino

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.