Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Viorst

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.

Joseph Conrad

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Butler

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

Kate Millett

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Langston Hughes

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

John Keats

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

John Keats

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

John Keats

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Josh Billings

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Josh Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

Josh Billings

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Karl Barth

The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

Karl Barth

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Ouida

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Julien Green

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Judy Garland

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Joyce Meyer

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

Joyce Meyer

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.

Maria Mitchell

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Patrick Duffy

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Martin Luther

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

Mark Steyn

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Nicole Kidman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.