Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mencius

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Melody Beattie

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

Marge Piercy

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Ted Turner

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Ted Turner

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

Theodore Roosevelt

From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodor Adorno

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Michelangelo

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

I'm pleased that I won, ... I'm very happy.

I'm proud of how they're doing. They have stepped up and I'm happy they are doing that.

I'm just not a very happy person during the season. I'm not a very satisfied person.

I'm just happy we went out there and got our rings.

Sol Campbell

I'm just happy to get in there and start playing.

I'm just happy to be on his team.

Miguel Cairo

I'm just happy to be back in pinstripes.

I'm just doing what makes me happy. I've done a lot and seen a lot. Now I'm just doing what I'm passionate about.

I haven?t been this happy in two weeks now.

Jason Wright

I had no idea about that streak, ... I know they were all real happy on the sideline when I (scored).

Carlos Rogers

I'm very happy with the way things went.

I'm very surprised. After the last uphill, I realized I can win a medal. I am very happy.

Neale Donald Walsch

In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life in the physical realm is glorious, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness of who you really are. So go into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about yourself.

Neale Donald Walsch

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.