Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Schiller

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Friedrich Schiller

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

Friedrich Schiller

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Frederick the Great

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

George Gissing

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Johnny Carson

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

Johnny Carson

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

Johnny Carson

Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

Luigi Pirandello

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Ludwig van Beethoven

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Luc de Clapiers

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

John Buchan

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Luther Burbank

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

John Betjeman

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

May Sarton

I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.

Matthieu Ricard

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Matthieu Ricard

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Matthew Arnold

The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

Matthew Arnold

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Matthew Arnold

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Maxwell Maltz

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Maya Angelou

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.