Happy Life famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
-- A. A. Gill -
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
-- Alastair Campbell -
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.
-- Alice Sebold -
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
-- Ally Condie -
You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high. You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions. We are here to encompass the world with love and light.
-- Amit Ray -
There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.
-- Andreas Moritz -
It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.
-- Andrew W.K. -
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
-- Angelo Scola -
If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.
-- Anne Hathaway -
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
-- Aristotle -
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....
-- Aristotle -
A happy life is imposÂsiÂble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
-- Avril Lavigne -
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
-- Ayn Rand -
It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
-- Ben Affleck -
In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.
-- Bentley Little -
It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.
-- Bern Will Brown -
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
-- Bernie Siegel -
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.
-- Bill Crawford -
If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.
-- Bill Rancic -
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.
-- Billy Graham -
The secret to a happy life is to run out of cash and air at the same time.
-- Bobby Layne -
When I was nine I played the Demon King in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
-- Boris Karloff -
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.
-- Brian Murphy -
Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.
-- Brian Weiss -
There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
-- Byron Katie -
If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
-- Byron Katie -
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful
-- Carl Jung -
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
-- Charlize Theron -
While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
-- Chipper Jones -
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
-- Christopher McCandless -
Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.
-- Claire Trevor -
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
-- Clifford Odets -
Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
-- Dalai Lama -
What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.
-- Dalai Lama -
Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.
-- Dalai Lama -
I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.
-- Dalai Lama -
We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.
-- Dalai Lama -
We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm subject to destructive emotions like anger and jealousy the same as you, but we all have potential for good too. However, our existing education system is oriented towards material development; neglecting inner values. Consequently we lack a clear awareness of the inner values that are the basis of a happy life.
-- Dalai Lama -
Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.
-- Dalai Lama -
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.
-- Dalai Lama -
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.
-- Daniel Tammet -
If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.
-- David Cook -
Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.
-- David Dunn -
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.
-- David G. McAfee -
What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
-- David Suzuki -
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.
-- David Wroblewski -
If you want to be happy, all you have to do is be happy.
-- David Zinczenko -
If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.
-- Debbie Ford -
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.
-- Denis Thatcher -
When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.
-- Diego Della Valle -
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.
-- Ellen Burstyn -
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards -
Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.
-- Eric Weiner -
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.
-- Esther Hicks -
I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
-- Frank Miller -
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
-- Frank Sinatra -
You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.
-- Gary D. Schmidt -
Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.
-- Genghis Khan -
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
-- George Herbert -
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 -
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
-- Graham Hill -
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
-- 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.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.
-- 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 -
The only way a relationship between you and God can be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
-- Harlan Coben -
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Any struggle or pain that you experience just gets you to the top, and you can't get there without making the climb. A few years later, you won't remember exactly the way the pain felt or how long it took, you'll just remember the view from the top. In fact, you might smile at the fact you had to work to get there.
-- Hayley Williams -
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
-- Horace -
He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.
-- Irene Nemirovsky -
Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
-- James Cagney -
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably.
-- James Dean -
There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.
-- James Mercer -
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
-- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire -
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.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.
-- Jesse Bering -
It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.
-- Jill Davis -
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
-- Jim Henson -
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
-- Jim Rohn
