Quotes by Authors - Page 161

Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B.C. Forbes
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Prince
Getting what you go after is success but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
Bertha Damon
Hope costs nothing.
Colette
Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
William Barclay
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
Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
Anonymous
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
Laughter is the best medicine.
Anonymous
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
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
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
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
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
Anonymous
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Lydia M. Child
Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
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
Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.
Sally James
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
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo. C Rosten
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
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
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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
It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.
Anonymous
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
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
All happiness is in the mind.
Anonymous
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Jane Porter
When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.
Charlotte Brontë
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
When you dig another out of their troubles you find a place to bury your own.
Anonymous
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
Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
Mary Ann Kelty
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