Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Tammet

Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

Ally Condie

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

Alice Sebold

I wish you all a long and happy life

Daisaku Ikeda

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

David Wroblewski

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

Kimberly Elise

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Patrick McGoohan

A still tongue makes a happy life.

Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

Lauren Myracle

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Lillian Gish

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Esther Hicks

A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.

Esther Hicks

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

Jeff Lindsay

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

Gerald Brenan

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Jim Henson

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Michael Pollan

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

Michael Josephson

A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

Max Lucado

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

Matt Kenseth

I'm happier than I've ever been in life. Happy with my life outside of racing. Really happy with my life inside the garage.

Marianne Williamson

Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.

Mary Kay Ash

Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life.

Rajneesh

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

Nick Offerman

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Jon Mead

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just stop caring.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Ray Bradbury

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Ralph Merkle

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Gretchen Rubin

There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.

Gretchen Rubin

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

Gretchen Rubin

I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

Gretchen Rubin

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.