Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Snow

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

Lord Byron

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

Lord Byron

Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

M. F. K. Fisher

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

Lord Chesterfield

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

Lord Chesterfield

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Lord Chesterfield

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Malcolm Forbes

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Malcolm Forbes

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

Malcolm Forbes

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

Malcolm Forbes

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

Frank McCourt

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Maggie Stiefvater

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Holbrook Jackson

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Hermann Hesse

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Hermann Hesse

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Henry Van Dyke

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Henry Van Dyke

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be strong is to be happy!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henri Rousseau

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.