Famous Quotes

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

~ Charles Baxter

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

~ Mollie Marti

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

~ Alain De Botton

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

~ Steve Maraboli

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

~ Carole Glickfeld

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.

~ Deborah Day

count no man happy until he be dead.

~ Solon

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

~ Eugene O'neill

Connection is life; disconnection, death.

~ Deborah Day

Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. The House of Mirth

~ Edith Wharton

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

~ Mark Sundeen

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.

~ Mervyn Peake

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

~ Sebastian Faulks

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

~ Stanley Cavell

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.''It's the most we can hope for.

~ David Nicholls

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

~ Jane Austen

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

~ W.h. Auden

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

~ Wallace Stegner

When you feel down and out you must reach up and out--to Spirit! Our strength will only resonate deep within your souls if you open your heart and minds with us.

~ Jim Fargiano

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

~ François Lelord

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.

~ Jack Kerouac

Sonnez, grelots; sonnez, clochettes; sonnez, cloches!Car mon rêve impossible a pris corps et je l’aiEntre mes bras pressé : le Bonheur, cet ailéVoyageur qui de l’Homme évite les approches,- Sonnez grelots; sonnez, clochettes, sonnez, cloches!Le Bonheur a marché côte à côte avec moi;Mais la FATALITÉ ne connaît point de trêve :Le ver est dans le fruit, le réveil dans le rêve,Et le remords est dans l’amour : telle est la loi.- Le Bonheur a marché côte à côte avec moi.

~ Paul Verlaine

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

~ Jane Austen

Marriage is a wonderful invention, but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

~ Billy Connolly

Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!

~ Rainis

We need but little learning to live happily.

~ Michel De Montaigne

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

~ Jane Austen

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

~ Marty Rubin

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

~ Jane Austen

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

~ Tom Robbins

The door to heaven is open to us at any time we are willing to accept that we are of absolutely no importance. The bars of our own hell - the “mind-forged manacles” as Blake put it - are our attempts to justify ourselves or prove our self-worth. Accept that none of this matters and we can see that heaven is all around us. It is there in a child’s smile, in the rain that waters the earth, even in the maggots that rise in new life from dead meat. All around us is evidence that life and love are eternal and unbroken by strife and suffering.

~ Aussiescribbler

disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

~ Padgett Powell

Life is a journey worth making.

~ Pandora Gray

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

~ Jane Austen

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

~ Jane Austen

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

~ Criss Jami

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

~ Ayn Rand

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensible to the preservation and justification of existence in society. Professional activity is a source of special satisfaction if it is a freely chosen one — if, that is to say, by means of sublimation, it makes possible the use of existing inclinations, of persisting or constitutionally reinforced instinctual impulses. And yet, as a path to happiness, work is not highly prized by men. They do not strive after it as they do after other possibilities of satisfaction. The great majority of people only work under the stress of necessity, and this natural human aversion to work raises most difficult social problems.

~ Sigmund Freud