Quotes by Authors - Page 162

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
Anonymous
Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money as long as we get our hands on it?
Ivy Baker Priest
The little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Hugh Walpole
I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
Julia Child
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
Leo Tolstoy
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr
Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out you must stay out. And to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
Ruth Benedict
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tyron Edwards
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
Sir James M. Barrie
Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.
Hugh Walpole
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
William Feather
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.
Margaret Sherwood
True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
To be busy is man's only happiness.
Mark Twain
The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.
A. Edward Newton
If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
W. Beran Wolfe
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte P. Gilman
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Anonymous
I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
Willa Cather
Happiness is action.
David Thomas
Happiness is not something you get but something you do.
Marcelene Cox
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.
Kay Boyle
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
Catherine Cookson
A good message will always find a messenger.
Amelia Barr
If you aren't good at loving yourself you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis
The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
Conscience as I understand it is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right regardless of personal ends and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
Margaret Collier Graham
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
Viktor Frankl
Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us on a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Søren Kierkegaard
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
Robert J. McCracken
Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
Elton Trueblood
Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
Lisa Alther
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Wilder Lane