Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Karl Barth

The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

Karl Barth

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Ouida

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Julien Green

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Judy Garland

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Joyce Meyer

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

Joyce Meyer

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.

Maria Mitchell

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Mother Teresa

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

Mother Teresa

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

God never sends us more than we can handle.

Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Keith Douglas

Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

Ramana Maharshi

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Ralph Lauren

We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.

Rachel Smith

Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.

Rainbow Rowell

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.