Sir Walter Scott

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Thoughts On Happiness

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Thoughts On Happiness

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.

George Matthew Adams

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

--Joseph Addison

We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.

--Henri Frédéric Amiel

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

--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

--St. Francis of Assisi

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

--Hosea Ballou

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

--James M. Barrie

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

--Georges Bataille

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

--Henry Ward Beecher

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

--Walter Benjamin

Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

--Josh Billings

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

--Hugh Black

I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library.

--Jorge Luis Borges

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

--Paul Bourget

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

--Fernand Braudel

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

--Emily Bronté

Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

--Hobart Brown

No man, with a man’s heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

--John Mason Brown

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

--Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

--Gelett Burgess

Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are-they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.

--Samuel Butler

We have all sinned and come short of the glory of making ourselves as comfortable as we easily might have done.

--Samuel Butler

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

--Lord Byron

Happiness was born a twin.

--Lord Byron

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness.

Love & Marriage Quotes

"Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along."
- Anon

You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.
- Friends

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Unknown

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
-GEORGE WASHINGTON

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
-GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.
-HONORE DE BALZAC

Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
-BERTRAND RUSSELL

Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can't help but wonder what would have happened if you'd chosen some other dessert--brownies, for instance ... or frozen yogurt ... or maybe chocolate strudel.
-JEROME P. CRABB

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
-EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism and Other Essays

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
-FRANCIS BACON, Essays

To make a happy fire-side clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
ROBERT BURNS, To Dr. Blacklock

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter

When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.
-AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.
-JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Dec. 29, 1711

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
-JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
-FRANK SINATRA, The Joker Is Wild

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
-JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice

Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
-AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
-GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
-BILL MAHER, Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.
-GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Lund Washington, Sep. 20, 1783

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California I have to go to prison don't I? I think you only get three.
-ROSEANNE BARR, Larry King Live, Mar. 2, 2006

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?
-HERBERT SPENCER, An Autobiography

When a man marries a woman, they become one--the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.


BEFORE MARRIAGE
He: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait.
She: Do you want me to leave?
He: NO! Don't even think about it.
She: Do you love me?
He: Of course! Over and over!
She: Have you ever cheated on me?
He: NO! Why are you even asking?
She: Will you kiss me?
He: Every chance I get!
She: Will you hit me?
He: Are you crazy! I'm not that kind of person!
She: Can I trust you?
He: Yes. 
She: Darling! 

AFTER MARRIAGE
Read from the bottom going up
- Unknown

The reason most couples get divorced is not because they get bored with each other. It's because when you're dating, you pretend to be someone you're not.

And there's only so long you can hold that off.
- House

Good Luck Quotes

Good Luck Quotes

Here’s to wishing you the best of luck in all life has to offer you.

Good luck to you as you move toward the next chapter life brings your way.

I heard about your good news and wanted to wish you good luck and best of health.

So glad to hear about your promotion. May your life always be filled with such good luck.

My heart is filled with joy at the sound of your good news. Best of luck to you dear friend.

Here’s to hoping good luck continues to follow you for all the rest of your days my friend.

Luck is not found but made by those who are determined and you are one such person.

Sending you thoughtful wishes in all life’s endeavors. Good luck to you now and always.

I am overjoyed to know that your life is filled with such good luck and may it always be that way.

Life is what you make of it and I am happy to know that yours is filled with such good luck.

May you find as much joy in your life as you have luck my sweet friend.

So happy to hear your wonderful news. Here’s to wishing you the best of luck!

I am thrilled to know that luck has finally found you. Warmest wishes my friend.

Sending you happy thoughts and lots of luck as you move forward with your life.

The sweetest things in life are love and happiness. Wishing you good luck now that you have found that.

My heart is flowing with joy at knowing that good luck has finally fallen upon your doorstep.

I find my heart singing a chorus at your happy news. Good luck to you during this joyous time.

Smile knowing that good luck has finally found you. Wishing you plenty of joy, happiness, and health.

The good luck you have made for yourself is an inspiration to many. May it continue throughout your life.

Good luck to you and remember to keep your head up high for all the days of your beautiful and wonderful life.

Quotes on Dreams

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

GAO XINGJIAN, Dialogue and Rebuttal

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

BILL CLINTON, speech at Democratic National Convention, July 26, 2004

Dreaming men are haunted men.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, John Brown's Body

If I dream I have you, I have you,

For, all our joys are but fantastical.

JOHN DONNE, The Dream

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.

WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave

A paradise for a sect.

JOHN KEATS, The Fall of Hyperion

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

HUGH HEFNER, AskMen.com interview

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the Medusa

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Father, O father! what do we here

In this land of unbelief and fear?

The Land of Dreams is better far,

Above the light of the morning star.

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Land of Dreams

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

CARL JUNG, Man and His Symbols

Funny Humorous Quotes

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
-A. Whitney Brown

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
- Stephen Wright

When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter.
- Stephen Wright.

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
--Sue Murphy

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
-Bruce Baum

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
- Ellen DeGeners.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
- Yogi Berra

He who sleeps on the floor will not fall off the bed.
- Robert Gronock.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
- Elayne Boosler

Wherever I go, people are waving at me. Maybe if I do a good job, they'll use all their fingers.
- Frank King, Winter Olympic Games organizing committee chairman.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.
- Mark Knopfler.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- Barrymore.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
- Mork, Mork and Mindy

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
- Dick Cavett

When you come to a fork in the road, take it!
- Yogi Berra

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- Dan Quayle

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
- W. C. Fields.

It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people.
- Dolph Sharp

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES BY BUDDHA

1. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

2. “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

3. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” 

4. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” 

5. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

6. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” 

7. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

8. “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

9. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” 

10. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” 

 Also is the final one by The Buddha:

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”