Quotes by American Authors - Page 155

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis
The best things in life aren't things.
Ann Landers
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
Sue Patton Thoele
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.
Bernie S. Siegel
Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
Zona Gale
There's a thread that binds all of us together pull one end of the thread the strain is felt all down the line.
Rosamond Marshall
Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.
Shirley Abbott
Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent two or no children at all.
Shere Hite
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Lydia M. Child
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.
Marguerite Wilkinson
There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.
Ivy Baker Priest
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
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
Julia Child
Where thou art that is home.
Emily Dickinson
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
Robert J. Havighurst
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
Jean Illsley Clarke
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
Anna Quindlen
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.
John Burroughs
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
Elbert Hubbard
Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
E. Merrill Root
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo. C Rosten
There is work that is work and there is play that is play there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
Gelett Burgess
Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
M. C. Mcintosh
To make a man happy fill his hands with work.
Frederick E. Crane
If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say "Work a little harder Work a little longer Work!"
Frederick H. Ecker
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
Barbara Pletcher
Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell 0 storms! Farewell.
Louise Imogen Guiney
When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
Lionel Barrymore
To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Dick Gregory
Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship keep them till full-blown You will find more happiness than you have ever known.
Amy R. Raabe
Happiness is a by-product of helping others.
Denny Miller
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.
Elizabeth Arden
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
For most of life nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job huge amounts of money a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If on the other hand happiness depends on a good breakfast flowers in the yard a drink or a nap then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.
Julia Child
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Cher