Life Quotes

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Frank Norris

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

~ Tom Ford

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

~ Norman Lear

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

~ Chandra Wilson

I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

~ Chris Evans

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

~ William Hazlitt

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

~ Jon Huntsman

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

~ H. Jackson Brown

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

~ Maxwell Maltz

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

~ Linus Pauling

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

~ George Orwell

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

~ Tobey Maguire

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

~ Pablo Picasso

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

~ Alexander Alekhine

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

~ Storm Jameson

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

~ Andrea Bocelli

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

~ Anthony Hopkins

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

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

~ Frederick Delius

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

~ Red Skelton

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

~ Charisma Carpenter

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

~ David Lynch

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

~ Eric Idle

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

~ Maeve Binchy

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

~ Émile Zola

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

~ John Paul Jones

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

~ Patrick Kavanagh

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

~ Gary Larson

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

~ Mortimer Adler

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

~ Anton Chekhov

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

~ Daniel Dennett