Famous Quotes & Sayings

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Lauren Oliver

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Lauren Oliver

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

Pablo Picasso

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Pablo Picasso

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Patti Page

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Patti LuPone

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Oscar Wilde

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Oscar Wilde

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Oscar Wilde

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Ivan Turgenev

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Iris Murdoch

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Harry S Truman

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Immanuel Kant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Katherine Mansfield

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

Kitty Kelley

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

There's a lot to be happy about right now.

There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.

Ray Bradbury

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Randy Pausch

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

Seal

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

Sean Connery

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Sidney Sheldon

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Todd Solondz

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.