Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

Nhat Hanh

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Nhat Hanh

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

Jodi Picoult

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Marquis de Sade

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Nikki Giovanni

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Nikki Giovanni

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Nikki Giovanni

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Mary McCarthy

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Nicholas Sparks

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Nicholas Sparks

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Muhammad Ali

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Oscar Wilde

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Maeve Binchy

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

M. Ward

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

Lydia M. Child

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Lydia M. Child

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Lydia M. Child

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Lucille Ball

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

Lucille Ball

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Lucille Ball

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Lucinda Williams

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Margaret Oliphant

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Michel de Montaigne

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michel de Montaigne

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.