Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Betjeman

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

Matthieu Ricard

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Matthieu Ricard

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Matthew Arnold

The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

Matthew Arnold

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Matthew Arnold

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Maxwell Maltz

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Maya Angelou

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Maurice Chevalier

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Matthew Quick

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Marilyn vos Savant

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

Retief Goosen

I'm not really somebody that jumps up and down, ... But on the inside, I was happy.

Kirk Kerkorian

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

Kirsten Dunst

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Karl Marx

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx

There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Gilda Radner

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Bronson Arroyo

Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.

Charles Kuralt

Sometimes I would think myself happy never to leave. Every trip must end.

Pat Conroy

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Julia Roberts

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Joseph Brodsky

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.