Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Shapiro

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Karl Popper

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

John Dryden

They live too long who happiness outlive.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

John Masefield

The days that make us happy make us wise

John Lubbock

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

John Lubbock

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

John Lubbock

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

John Lubbock

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

John Lubbock

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

John Lubbock

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Locke

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

John Lennon

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Jim Rohn

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

Jim Rohn

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

Jim Rohn

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

Jim Rohn

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

George Leigh Mallory

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

Elvis Presley

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person....

Ellen Hopkins

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

Joseph Hall

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

Judith Viorst

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.

Joseph Conrad

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.