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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
— Paul Auster
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
— Jewel
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
— Dave Barry
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
— Willie Nelson
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
— Jane Fonda
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
— Jane Fonda
The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.
— Jane Fonda
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
— Paul Weller
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
— Josh Billings
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
— Harrison Ford
I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.
— Lindsay Lohan
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
— Pierre Corneille
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
— George Lucas
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
— J. G. Ballard
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
— Hilary Mantel
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
— Gail Sheehy
A grownup is a child with layers on.
— Woody Harrelson
I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.
— Michelle Dockery
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
— Baltasar Gracian
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
— Bonnie Raitt
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
— Paul Cezanne
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
— Hedy Lamarr
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.
— George Saunders
Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.
— Jacqueline Bisset
I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.
— David Walton
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
— Ranbir Kapoor
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
— Erich Fromm
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
— John Dryden
You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.
— Tom Colicchio
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
— Casey Stengel
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
— Ira Sachs
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
— Eddie Murphy
I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.
— Emma Stone
I get all fired up about aging in America.
— Willard Scott
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
— Pete Townshend
Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre. 
— Philip Roth
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
— Patty Duke
A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
— Nick Cannon
All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
— Dan Stevens
It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.
— Alexa Von Tobel
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
— Heather Graham
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.
— Eric Ries
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
— Saoirse Ronan
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
— Pearl S. Buck
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
— Jean Paul
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
— Emily Blunt
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
— Douglas Horton
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
— William Feather
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
— Anthony Browne
For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
— Akshay Kumar
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
— Rowan Williams
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
— Don Marquis
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
— Don Marquis
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
— Tom Shales
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
— Judith Viorst
I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.
— Ellen Barkin
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
— Jessye Norman
I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.
— Raquel Welch
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
— Brandon Boyd
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30 or work after she is 30 or get married.
— Anna Held
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
— Katharine Graham
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
— Rachel Stevens
When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.
— Rosemary Mahoney
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
— Laura Marling
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
— Suzanne Collins
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
— Garrison Keillor
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.
— Rick Pitino
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
— Doug Larson
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
— Thomas Hardy
No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.
— Russell Peters
My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
— Tommy Hilfiger
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
— J. B. Priestley
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
— Bette Midler
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
— Ralph Nader
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
— Robertson Davies
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
— Vaclav Havel
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
— Bo Jackson
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
— Andre Maurois
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
— Doris Day
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
— Hans Rosling
It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.
— Gemma Arterton
The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.
— Maria Shriver
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
— Warren Beatty
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.
— John Wycliffe
Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
— Ursula Burns
I'm not afraid of aging.
— Shelley Duvall
People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.
— David LaChapelle
I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
— Diana Nyad
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
— Natalia Vodianova
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
— Horace Walpole
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
— John Boyd Orr
You should never reveal your true age.
— Eve Arnold
I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.
— Ruud van Nistelrooy
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
— Hosea Ballou
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
— Bill Vaughan
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
— Paul Nurse
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
— John Lahr
People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.
— Robert Darnton
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
— Michael D. Higgins
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
— Christine Lahti
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
— Max Lerner
It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.
— Luc Montagnier
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
— Alessandro Nivola
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have a high IQ number. My parents gave me the test.' That's the way I was, I guess. I am still a kid. I love doing kid activities. I'm such a kid, but when I'm on set, I do like to be professional.
— Atticus Shaffer
The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
— Erin Moran
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
— Miriam Makeba
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
— Lana Parrilla
Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
— Jane Elliot
Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.
— Candace Cameron Bure
Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
— Evelyn Lauder
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.
— Peter Senge
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
— Alan Kay
It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.
— Pippa Middleton
I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.
— Jesse Plemons
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
— Thomas Dekker
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
— Thomas Dekker
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
— Norman Douglas
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
— Faith Prince
Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
— Peter Jurasik
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
— Jim Bishop
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
— Knut Hamsun
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
— Edmond de Goncourt
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
— Amanda Holden
It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
— David Tang
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
— Louis Kronenberger
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
— Clive Bell
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
— John Osborne
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
— Muriel Spark
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
— Sri Aurobindo
I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
— Rachel Hurd-Wood
I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?
— Tamala Jones
I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
— Lex Luger
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
— G. Stanley Hall
No man is ever old enough to know better.
— Holbrook Jackson
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
— Andy Kaufman
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
— Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
— Maurice Chevalier
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
— Alison Weir
The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.
— Norman Geisler
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
— Helen Gurley Brown
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
— Hume Cronyn
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
— Elijah Wood
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
— Ben Casnocha
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.
— Pete Cashmore
Judges don't age time decorates them.
— Enid Bagnold
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
— Billie Burke
You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
— Belinda Carlisle
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
— Nancy McKeon
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
— Pamela Adlon
From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.
— Mike Lookinland
At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
— Zeresenay Alemseged
I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.
— Jim Flaherty
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
— Fannie Flagg
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.
— Matt Mickiewicz
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
— Thomas Arnold
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
— Grace Abbott
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
— Bob Wells
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
— Ira Gershwin
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
— Susan Anton
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
— Claude Pepper
I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
— Rabbit Maranville
There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.
— Joseph Edward Kurtz
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
— Ed Wynn
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
— Dennis Flanagan
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
— Bernard Barton
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
— William Ernest Hocking
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
— Omar Khayyam
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
— Jim Rohn
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
— Dita Von Teese
Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.
— Kareena Kapoor Khan
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
— Buddha
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
— Valerie Bertinelli
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
— Richard Bach
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
— Thucydides
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
— Tina Turner
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
— Joel Osteen
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
— Tom Wilson
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
— Charles Spurgeon
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
— Divyanka Tripathi
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
— Izabella Scorupco
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
— Nana Mouskouri
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
— Sharon Draper
I get way too much happiness from good food.
— Elizabeth Olsen
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
— Benjamin Franklin
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
— Dionne Warwick
I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'
— Cherie Lunghi
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
— Dada Vaswani
For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
— Rakul Preet Singh
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
— William Morris
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
— Martha Washington
Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
— Mother Teresa
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
— Ambrose Bierce
Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.
— Lesley Ann Warren
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
— Bo Derek
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
— George Foreman
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
Power means happiness power means hard work and sacrifice.
— Beyonce Knowles
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
— Daniel Boone
Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.
— John Harrigan
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
— James E. Faust
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
— C. S. Lewis
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
— Thomas Jefferson
I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
— Kylie Jenner
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
— Andrea Hirata
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
— Brad Garrett
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
— Marie Kondo
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
— Ashley Montagu
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
— George Orwell
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
— Ayn Rand
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
— John C. Maxwell
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
— Bernard Meltzer
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
— John W. Gardner
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
— Pierre Corneille
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
— Kanye West
I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
— Drew Barrymore
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.
— Herbie Hancock
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
— Jennifer Garner
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
— Anne Lamott
To me, flowers are happiness.
— Stefano Gabbana
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
— Harold Kushner
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
— P. T. Barnum
Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.
— Suzanne Weyn
Happiness is only real when shared.
— Christopher McCandless
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.
— Sheryl Sandberg
The happiness of society is the end of government.
— John Adams
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
— Helen Keller
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
— Albert Einstein
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
— Shawn Achor
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
— Johnny Carson
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
— Adam Grant
Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
— Yaya DaCosta
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
— Bertrand Russell
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
— William E. Gladstone
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
— George Bernard Shaw
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
— Khalil Gibran
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
— C. S. Lewis
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
— Sarah McLachlan
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
— Barry Sanders
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
— Leigh Hunt
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
— Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
— Henry Drummond
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
— Ernest Hemingway
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
— Claire Forlani
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
— Pharrell Williams
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
— Bobby Davro
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
— Muhammad Yunus
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
— Anna Pavlova
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
— Wayne Gretzky
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
— George Washington
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
— Louise Hart
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
— Adam Smith
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
— Billy Graham
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
— Dale Carnegie
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
— Bertrand Russell
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
— Sandra Bullock
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
— Dante Alighieri
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
— Helen Keller
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
— Annie Besant
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
— Denis Waitley
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
— Vanilla Ice
So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
— Nicki Minaj
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
— Sergey Brin
The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
— Kay Hagan
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
— Swami Sivananda
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
— C. S. Lewis
Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
— Thomas Jane
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
— Kelsang Gyatso
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
— Frank McCourt
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
— Benjamin Franklin
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
— Benjamin Franklin