Happiness Quotes (2906)

Quotes and citations about happiness

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career... view

By: Matthew Ashford

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events... view

By: Matthew Ashford

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare... view

By: Ed Asner

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness... view

By: Mary Astell

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds... view

By: Mary Astell

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about... view

By: Sean Astin

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know... view

By: Brooks Atkinson

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town... view

By: Brooks Atkinson

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project... view

By: Rowan Atkinson

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did... view

By: Rowan Atkinson

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own... view

By: Margaret Atwood

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag... view

By: W. H. Auden

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside... view

By: John James Audubon

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them... view

By: Jean M. Auel

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books... view

By: Jean M. Auel

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible... view

By: Saint Augustine

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love... view

By: Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature... view

By: Marcus Aurelius

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years... view

By: Ausonius

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance... view

By: Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of... view

By: Jane Austen

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment... view

By: Jane Austen

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts... view

By: J. L. Austin

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life... view

By: Frankie Avalon

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy... view

By: Roy Ayers

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it... view

By: Sai Baba

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful... view

By: Irving Babbitt

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment... view

By: Irving Babbitt

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present... view

By: Roger Babson

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life... view

By: Richard Bach

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it... view

By: Richard Bach

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness... view

By: Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem... view

By: Richard Bach

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know... view

By: Richard Bach

I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules... view

By: Amitabh Bachchan

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families... view

By: Spencer Bachus

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so.. view

By: Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears... view

By: Francis Bacon