Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

Peter S. Beagle

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Robert Holden

You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

Taisen Deshimaru

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Tom Ford

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

Vanessa Marcil

I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.

Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Steve Martin

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

Shakti Gawain

Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

Shakti Gawain

Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Sammy Hagar

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

Soren Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Stephenie Meyer

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

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.

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.