Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Richardson

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

Samuel Beckett

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Samuel L. Jackson

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

Whitney Houston

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

Wangari Maathai

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Lin Yutang

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Laurie Colwin

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

L. Ron Hubbard

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Thomas Aquinas

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

Therese of Lisieux

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

Terry Pratchett

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

Randall Jarrell

Read at whim! Read at whim!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

Sean Hannity

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.