Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

David Hume

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

David Hume

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

David Hume

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

David Dunn

To praise is an investment in happiness.

Beatrice Wood

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

August Strindberg

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

August Strindberg

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

David Vitter

I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!

David Walliams

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

David Henry Hwang

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

David Icke

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim

David Icke

This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear, an expression of All Possibility that cannot manifest within the balance of Oneness. Fear only comes with the illusion of division and separation when consciousness perceives itself as part and not the whole. Fear is the shadow of illusory disconnection.

David Hume

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams.

David Bryant

One is not old until Dreams become Regrets.

David Branch

Stay disciplined, work hard, always believe in your dreams and go after them.

David Brainerd

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Lin Yutang

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.