Quotes by American Authors - Page 158

I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
A caress is better than a career.
Elizabeth Marbury
When love is out of your life you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going you have such vitality to do things big things because love is goosing you all the time.
Fanny Brice
I love and the world is mine!
Florence Earle Coates
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses.
Russell Baker
Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt
Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
Judith Viorst
Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.
Mary Clemmer
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
Happiness hates the timid!
Eugene O'Neill
Man is that he might have joy.
Joseph Smith
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier
All I can say about life is Oh God enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers
Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.
B.M. Bower
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland
The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
Phyllis Battelle
Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anaïs Nin
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
I love myself when I am laughing.
Zora Neale Hurston
A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.
Barbara Walters
The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
Whether you are talking about education career or service you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush
Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
Norman Bradburn
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
A. Edward Newton
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Emily Dickinson
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
George Santayana
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
Don Marquis
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
Charlton Ogburn
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
W.H. Auden
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell
For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
We must all hang together else we shalFall hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.
George Cabot Lodge
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
William James
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai Stevenson
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.
Mark Twain