Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Patton Oswalt

There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

Pope Francis

Proceed calmly in life.

Rachel Caine

Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.

Paulo Coelho

I don't know what's going to happen to me tomorrow. That's why I don't save my best for last.

Primo Levi

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

Mother Teresa

Spread your love wherever you go.

Walt Whitman

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Satchel Paige

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Richard Rohr

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Rufus Sewell

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

Rodney Dangerfield

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Wayne Dyer

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

Wayne Dyer

Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life

Werner Erhard

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Salma Hayek

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

Wendy Cope

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

Vladimir Putin

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

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.

Gretchen Rubin

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionat e boost to happiness.

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.'

Jean Ingelow

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

George Harrison

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

Fulton J. Sheen

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world....

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.

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.