Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I hope you're getting this down.

William Ellery Channing

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Saint Augustine

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

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.

Rebecca West

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

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.

Satchel Paige

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

Voltaire

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

William Butler Yeats

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

Laura Bush

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

L. Ron Hubbard

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Shelley Duvall

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

Marcus Aurelius

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Walt Whitman

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

Roman Polanski

Happy endings make me puke.

Sam Levenson

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Sally Hawkins

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

Susan Cheever

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Thomas Merton

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

Tom Wilson

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Steve Martin

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.