Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

We're so happy. I don't know. We don't show it too much.

Frida Lyngstad

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Martin Seligman

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

We're still so happy that we won, but it didn't even hit me that we're going downstate until (Tuesday). I was like, 'Oh my God, we're going downstate!' I can't wait to get there. Now that we've seen it once already, we're really ready.

We're not happy with a share of the title. We wanted to win the title outright. We'll take this as a lesson and still try to win a (Division II) championship.

Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertrand Russell

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Bertrand Russell

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Cassie Ventura

Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

Carolyn Wells

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Simon Cowell

We're proud, we're happy, and it's nice that she remembers the show as well.

We're just happy to be playing another week. Let's tee it up and see how we do.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

William Shakespeare

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

We're quite happy with how we are doing in Laughlin at Harrah's.

We're quite happy to come and gatecrash things.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Gretchen Rubin

Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.

Louisa May Alcott

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Washington Irving

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.