Happiness
- It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only neccesary to be rich.
-- Alan Alda
- May your every wish be granted.
-- Ancient Chinese Curse
- Man is preceded by a forest and followed by a desert.
-- Anonymous French Graffiti
- Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
-- Aristotle
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
-- Marcus Aurelius
- The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
-- Marcus Aurelius
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
-- Jane Austen
- Money necer prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
-- Eddie Barclay
- The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
-- Jeremy Bentham
- Happiness is good health and bad memory.
-- Ingrid Bergman
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
-- Josh Billings
- The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And thqat is not happiness.
-- F. H. Bradley
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring family in another city.
-- George Burns
- To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
-- Albert Camus
- Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
-- Dale Carnegie
- The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Allan K. Chalmers
- Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
-- G. K. Chesterton
- Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
-- Chinese Proverb
- Happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
-- William Cowper
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
-- William Cowper
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
-- Bette Davis
- The poor man is happy; he expects no change for the worse.
-- Demetrius
- For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
-- Emily Dickinson
- Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
-- Dennis Diderot
- The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
-- George Eliot
- To fill the hour--that is happiness.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few droips on yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-- Epictetus
- Happiness is brief
It will not stay God batters at its sails.
-- Euripides
- Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
-- Rachel Field
- Instant gratification takes too long.
-- Carrie Fisher
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
-- Anatole France
- Whoecer is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
-- Anne Frank
- The US Constitution does not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-- Robert Frost
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep toa green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
-- Khalil Gibran
- A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
-- Lillian Gish
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
-- Roy M. Goodman
- We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
-- Mary Gordon
- To love what you do and feel that it matters --how could anything be more fun?
-- Catherine Graham
- There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
-- J. Grentell
- Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
-- Richard Halloway
- There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
-- George Herbert
- Happiness is how, not what: a talent, not an object.
-- Herman Hesse
- To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile -- that is happiness.
-- Herman Hesse
- Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
-- Burton Hills
- It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-- Kin Hubbard
- The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
-- William Inge
- Happiness is not a reward--it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment--it is a result.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.... public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
-- D. Jerrard
- It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
-- Sarah Orne Jewett
- There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens in life: and among mortals, those who are most unhappy are the ones who have more than they need.
-- Samuel Johnson
- No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-- Helen Keller
- 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 that has been opened for us.
-- Helen Keller
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-- Charles Kingsley
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
-- Stanislaw Lec
- No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
-- Letitia E. Landon
- Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
-- Lao-tzu
- One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Happiness is like a crystal,
Fair and exquisite and clear,
Broken in a million pieces,
Shattered, scattered, far and near.
Now and then along life's pathway,
Lo! some shining fragments fall;
But there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
You may find a bit of beauty,
Or an honest share of wealth,
While another, just beside you
Gathers honor, love, or health.
Vain to choose or grasp unduly,
Broken is the perfect ball;
And there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
Yet the wise, as on they journey,
Treasure every fragment clear,
Fit them as they may together,
Imagining the shattered sphere,
Learning ever to be thankful,
Though their share of it is small;
For it has so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
-- Priscilla Leonard
- Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
-- Oscar Levent
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- It's good to have money and the things tht money can buy, but it's good to check up once in a while to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
-- George Claude Lorimer
- Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.
-- Lord Mancroft
- Happiness comes fleetingly now and then,
To those who have learned to do without it
And to them only.
-- Don Marquis
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
-- Don Marquis
- Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
-- Daphne du Maurier
- Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
-- William Maxwell
- Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
-- Alice Meynell
- Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
-- Susanne Curchod Necker
- The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
-- A. Edward Newton
- The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
-- A. Edward Norton
- Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
-- Charles Ogburn, Jr.
- Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
-- Austin O'Malley
- The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
-- James Oppenheim
- The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
-- Vi Putnam
- You're as happy as you allow yourself to be -- so why be unhappy?
-- Marilyn Quayle
- It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier
- Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
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- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
-- jean-Jacques Rousseau
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness.
-- Bertrand Russel
- There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana
- The greatest you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-- William Saroyan
- Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
-- Scottish Proverb
- Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer
- Happiness is not funny.
-- Charles M. Schulz
- My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm Happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
-- Charles M. Schulz
- The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether yoiu are happy or not.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Man is that he might have joy.
-- Joseph Smith
- No man is happy. he is, at best, fortunate.
-- Solon
- Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
-- Sophocles
- Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
-- Lytton Strachey
- Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Love more, and all good things will be yours.
-- Swedish Proverb
- Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived.
-- Jonathan Swift
- Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
-- Mark Twain
- The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
-- Martha Washington
- If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
-- Edith Wharton
- Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of it's own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing a care.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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