Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burroughs

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

John Burroughs

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Joel Osteen

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Joan Chen

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Louise Hay

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Loudon Wainwright III

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Mao Zedong

The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

Madeleine L'Engle

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Louisa May Alcott

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Louisa May Alcott

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Louisa May Alcott

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

John Gay

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

John F. Kennedy

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

Linda Ellerbee

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

Leo Tolstoy

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Leo Tolstoy

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Rosten

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Buscaglia

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Leo Buscaglia

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

Lewis B. Smedes

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

Lewis B. Smedes

Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

Lewis Carroll

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Lewis Carroll

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Josephine Baker

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Campbell

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.