Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Edward Gibbon

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charles Baudelaire

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Charles Baudelaire

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Chandra Wilson

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

Charles Saatchi

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Charles M. Schwab

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Charles M. Schulz

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

Charles Edward Montague

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Billy Wilder

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Bernard Meltzer

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

We'll be happy to talk to any others.

Charles William Eliot

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Charles Kuralt

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Bob Newhart

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

Bob Newhart

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Beverly Sills

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Bernard Williams

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Edith Sitwell

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Edith Wharton

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Edith Wharton

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Edith Wharton

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Edith Wharton

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.