Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel de Montaigne

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Michel de Montaigne

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Michel de Montaigne

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Michael Korda

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Markus Zusak

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Markus Zusak

But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.

Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Mark Twain

To be busy is man's only happiness.

Mark Twain

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Marianne Williamson

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Marianne Williamson

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

Marianne Williamson

I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.

Marilyn Monroe

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Marian Anderson

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marguerite Duras

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Yourcenar

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

Nicholas Breton

Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad?

Naguib Mahfouz

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Princess Diana

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Princess Diana

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Publilius Syrus

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

Publilius Syrus

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Pratibha Patil

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Pierre Salinger

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Nelson Mandela

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.