Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gerald Brenan

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom....

Gloria Allred

He still loves Moe. Moe, of course, was innocent in all this and had nothing to do with it. We're really happy that St. James is home.

Hope ye unhappy ones; ye happy ones, fear.

Jalal Talabani

Hopefully, we will have news that will make everyone happy on Saturday.

Eileen collins

Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.

I don't know. I think a lot of us are kind of happy she's not here!

David Nalbandian

I didn't spend a lot of time on court, so I am happy for that. I am happy because I played very good. Every round, better and better.

Ricky Williams

I didn't know so many people would come up to me and give me a hug and tell me they were happy to have me back, ... ..... I'm just here to work.

Georges Duhamel

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

George Sand

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Jean Paul

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Jim Henson

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

Jerry Seinfeld

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Neil Gaiman

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Michael Pollan

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

Rajneesh

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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.

Matthew Broderick

My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.

Plautus

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Mignon McLaughlin

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

Mignon McLaughlin

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

John Polkinghorne

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Mark Twain

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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.

Mason Cooley

Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.

Mason Cooley

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

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.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

Michelle Williams

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.