Happiness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
-- A. A. Milne -
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
-- A. A. Milne -
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
-- A. A. Milne -
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
-- A. C. Benson -
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
-- A. E. Housman -
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
-- A. Edward Newton -
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
-- A. Edward Newton -
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
-- Aaliyah -
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!
-- Abd-ar-Rahman III -
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
-- Abdul Kalam -
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
-- Adam Clarke -
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
-- Adam Smith -
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
-- Adam Smith -
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.
-- Adam Yauch -
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
-- Adele -
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-- Aeschylus -
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
-- Aesop -
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
-- Aesop -
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-- Aesop -
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie -
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
-- Agatha Christie -
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.
-- Agnes Martin -
What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
-- Agnes Martin -
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
-- Agnes Repplier -
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
-- Alain de Botton -
Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
-- Alain de Botton -
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
-- Alan Alda -
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
-- Alan Alda -
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
-- Alan Cohen -
You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
-- Alan Cohen -
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
-- Alan Cohen -
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
-- Alan Cohen -
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
-- Alan Greenspan -
THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?
-- Alan Redpath -
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
-- Alan Watts -
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 -
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
-- Alastair Campbell -
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?
-- Alastair Campbell -
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
-- Albert Camus -
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
-- Albert Camus -
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
-- Albert Camus -
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-- Albert Camus -
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
-- Albert Camus -
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
-- Albert Camus -
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus -
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
-- Albert Camus -
But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
-- Albert Camus -
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
-- Albert Camus -
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
-- Albert Camus -
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
-- Albert Camus -
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
-- Albert Camus -
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein -
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
-- Albert Einstein -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
-- Albert Einstein -
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
-- Albert Einstein -
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
-- Albert Einstein -
Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
-- Albert Einstein -
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-- Albert Einstein -
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
-- Albert Ellis -
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
-- Aldous Huxley -
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
-- Alexander Pope -
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
-- Alexander Smith -
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
-- Alexander Smith -
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
-- Alexander Smith
