Happy famous quotes
04-23-2025
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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 -
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus -
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
-- 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 -
Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
-- Alyson Noel -
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
-- Anatole France -
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
-- Andrew Delbanco -
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
-- Andy Rooney -
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
-- Aristotle -
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
-- Arnold Bennett -
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
-- Bette Davis -
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
-- Bobby Bowden -
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
-- Booth Tarkington -
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
-- C.P. Snow -
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
-- Candace Bushnell -
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
-- Carlos E. Asay -
choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.
-- Chris Prentiss -
Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.
-- Constantinos C. Markides -
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-- Dalai Lama -
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
-- David Brainerd -
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
-- David Nicholls -
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
-- Denis Diderot -
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
-- Don Herold -
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
-- Don Marquis -
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
-- Doug Larson -
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
-- E. B. White -
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
-- Emma Watson -
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
-- Epictetus -
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-- Eric Hoffer -
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
-- Ernest A. Fitzgerald -
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
-- Ernest Dimnet -
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
-- Ernie Banks -
You have to do your thing no matter what anyone says. It's your life.
-- Ethan Embry -
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world....
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
-- George A. Sheehan -
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
-- George Orwell -
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
-- George Sand -
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
-- George Santayana -
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
-- Georges Bernanos -
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
-- Georges Duhamel -
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom....
-- Gerald Brenan -
We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
-- Goldie Hawn -
The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.
-- Grenville Kleiser -
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
-- Helen Keller -
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
-- Helen Keller -
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
-- Herodotus -
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
-- Immanuel Kant -
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
-- Iris Murdoch -
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
-- J. D. Salinger -
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
-- J. D. Salinger -
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-- Jacques Prevert -
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.
-- James H. Austin -
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
-- Jane Austen -
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
-- Jean Ingelow -
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
-- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi -
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
-- John Mason Good -
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
-- Jonathan Edwards -
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
-- Jose Marti -
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
-- Joseph Joubert -
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
-- Josh Billings -
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
-- Josh Billings -
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
-- Julian Casablancas
