Quotes and Sayings About Happy Life
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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
