Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Booker T. Washington

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Bobby Sands

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

Brian Tracy

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

Brian Tracy

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

Brian Tracy

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Brian Tracy

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Brian Tracy

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Brian Tracy

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

Brian Tracy

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

Brenda Ueland

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brad Pitt

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

Juvenal

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]

John Stuart Mill

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Garth Brooks

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Blaise Pascal

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Blaise Pascal

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Blaise Pascal

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Blaise Pascal

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Blaise Pascal

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.