Quotes by Authors - Page 160

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.
John Lancaster Spalding
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Christian Bovee
Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.
Melody Beattie
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret Atwood
Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.
Mark Twain
We are all happy if we only knew it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.
Don Marquis
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey
Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.
Anonymous
But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
No pleasure without pain.
Anonymous
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
Anonymous
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
Jane Austen
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first some unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Anonymous
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
Ken Keyes
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Anonymous
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.
Bernadette Roberts
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Robert R. Updegraff
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Anonymous
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.
Gary Rogers
Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.
W.H. Auden
For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Anatole France
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
G.K. Chesterton
Who will present pleasure refrain shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
Anonymous
Let him that would be happy for a day go to the barber for a week marry a wife for a month buy him a new horse for a year build him a new house for all his lifetime be an honest man.
Anonymous
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Anonymous
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
Anonymous
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
André Maurois
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Rumer Godden
Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.
John Masefield
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing
The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
Ellen Key
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Colette
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.
Lady Isabel Burton
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde