Learn Through Quotations

“He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.”

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“It is never too late to have a happy childhood.”

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”

“Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”

“Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.”

“The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.”

“Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.”

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

“False happiness is like false money, it passes for a long time as well as the true,and serves some ordinary occasions, but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.”

“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”

“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”

“That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.”

“There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

“Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple - yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.”

“I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.”

“The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”

“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”