Quotes by Authors - Page 163

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
Amelia Barr
People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.
Pearl Bailey
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.
Peace Pilgrim
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.
Isak Dinesen
I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
Julia Child
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly a good inner life is difficult to achieve especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
W. L. Shirer
Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook
What you become is what counts.
Liz Smith
When you're in your nineties and looking back it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
Rosalia Castro
Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.
Eliza Cook
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Dr. Melba Colgrove
Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.
Anonymous
To live and let live without clamor for distinction or recognition to wait on divine Love to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living and my human ideal.
Mary Baker Eddy
Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
Smiley Blanton
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity Sympathy and Serenity.
Emily Post
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.
Storm Jameson
To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardice to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners to think seldom of your enemies often of your friends and every day of Christ and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
Henry Van Dyke
Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures one or two friends worth the name someone to love and to love you a cat a dog enough to eat and enough to wear and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
André Gide
The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
Horace Walpole
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
Build a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.
Mary Frances Butts
Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing.
Lorraine Hansbury
Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Some pursue happiness others create it.
Anonymous
To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
André Gide
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
André Maurois
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
Franz Kafka
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Jane Rule
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Louise Erdrich
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Conners as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.
Patty Duke
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake Shange
Love is the only effective counter to death.
Maureen Duffy
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible-it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Lydia M. Child
Where there is great love there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
When you come right down to it the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
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
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 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