Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

Francois Du de La Rochefoucauld

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Were it not better to forget

Than to remember and regret"

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."

Rose Lane

"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."

Doug Larson

"Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness."

Gustave Le Bon

"Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember."

Oscar LeVant

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln

"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."

Abraham Lincoln

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."

Ann Morrow Lindbergh

"The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;

It rains, and the wind is never weary;

The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,

But at every gust the dead leaves fall,

And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;

It rains, and the wind is never weary;

My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past

But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,

And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;

Thy fate is the common fate of all:

Into each life some rain must fall;

Some days must be dark and dreary."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."

Horace Mann

"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe."

Orison Swett Marden

"Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy."

Karl Marx

"Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here."

William Mather

"The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised."

H. C. Mattern

"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past."

Andre Maurois

"The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves."

Andre Maurois

"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."

Peter McWilliams

"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways."

Peter McWilliams

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Bernard Melzer

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."

Bernard Meltzer

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

H. L. Mencken

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

John Stuart Mill

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

John Stuart Mill

" Then wilt thou not be loath

To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess

A Paradise within thee, happier far."

John Milton

"If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin' it in lot of other places too."

Gladiola Montana

"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you."

J. Kenfield Morley

“Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.”

Brian Tracy

"Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside, this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present."

Malcolm Muggeridge

"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

Jean Iris Murdoch

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,

And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Ogden Nash

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."

Cythina Nelms

"If this world afford 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."

Alfred Edward Newton

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

Anais Nin

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."

George Orwell

"It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself."

Thomas Paine

"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end."

Blaise Pascal

"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."

William Lyon Phelps

"The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character]."

William Lyon Phelps

"Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."

Plutarch

"That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting."

Plutarch

"The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements."

Plutarch

"Happiness is a way station between too much and too little."

Channing Pollock

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."