Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Margaret Chase Smith

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Margaret Deland

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...

Margaret Cho

It's hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get you where you want to go. I have not just thigh peace but thigh happiness, and it begins with thigh gratitude.

Mark Twain

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Mark Twain

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Lauren Oliver

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Lauren Oliver

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

Pablo Picasso

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Pablo Picasso

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Patti Page

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Patti LuPone

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Oscar Wilde

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Oscar Wilde

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Oscar Wilde

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Oscar Wilde

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Maeve Binchy

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

M. Ward

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

Lydia M. Child

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Lydia M. Child

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Lydia M. Child

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Lucille Ball

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

Lucille Ball

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Lucille Ball

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Lucinda Williams

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Margaret Oliphant

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.