Quotes by Writers - Page 176

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
Lin Yutang
It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!
Noel Fielding
The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Daniel C. Dennett
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
Herman Melville
He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
Mervyn Peake
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
Rohinton Mistry
A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
Voltaire
Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp
Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you’re unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!
Faraaz Kazi
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
Ai Yazawa
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.
Ai Yazawa
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
George Saunders
I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
S.J. Watson
Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.
Ellen DeGeneres
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.''Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.
Aldous Huxley
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take morphia and cocaine."..."Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."..."Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."..."Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."..."All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."..."Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."..."Stability was practically assured.
Aldous Huxley
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
George Sand
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)
Jean-Yves Leloup
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
Aldous Huxley
In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Being in the Word is Far More Important than Being in a Ministry...If You Are in a Ministry Without Being in the Word, You have Lost it.
Agu Jaachynma N.E.
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas Kempis
Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
Joseph Campbell
Transient guests are we.
Hideyuki Kikuchi
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
Abigail Adams
It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous
Agona Apell
Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up
Sahndra Fon Dufe
I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.
Ellen DeGeneres
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Există o limită a rezistenţei în fiecare. Când e atinsă, nu mai ai poftă să te justifici.
Octavian Paler
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
Ellen DeGeneres
cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.
Robert Walser
Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera...
Robert Walser
Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies.
Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Two footsteps do not make a path.
Nnedi Okorafor
You can't change people with love. It doesn't work that way.
A.S. King
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.
Gertrude Bell
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
William Zinsser
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation
François de La Rochefoucauld
Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.
José Saramago
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Dejan Stojanovic
Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.
Voltaire
To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
Fernando Pessoa
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
Herman Melville
L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand