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~ Happiness is an inside job. ~ William Arthur Ward
~ Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. ~ Zig Ziglar ~ Art never comes from happiness. ~ Chuck Palahniuk ~ Happiness is the longing for repetition. ~ Milan Kundera ~ Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. ~ Baruch Spinoza ~ Happiness is a journey, not a destination.~ Ben Sweetland ~ Where fear is, happiness is not. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~ If you want happiness, provide it to others. ~ Frank Tyger ~ Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. ~ Austin O'Malley ~ A well-spent day brings happy sleep. ~ Leonardo da Vinci ~ Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~ Werner Erhard ~ It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~ Robert White ~ Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ~ Antonio Gala ~ Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ~ Soren Kierkegaard ~ Happy is the house that shelters a friend.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~ Palmer Sondreal ~ Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. ~ Napoleon Hill ~ Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. ~ Dennis Wholey ~ Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~ Robert Frost ~ Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ~ Marquis de Sade ~ Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ~ George Washington ~ One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. ~ Plutarch ~ Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. ~ Helen Keller ~ He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. ~ William R. Alger ~ Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~ Immanuel Kant ~ Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ~ Hermann Hesse ~ He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~ Don Marquis ~ Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived. ~ Jonathan Swift ~ When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike. ~ German Proverb ~ Happiness is: Looking in a mirror and liking what you see. ~ Anonymous ~ There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ~ George Sand ~ Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ~ George Santayana ~ He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~ True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. ~ Anonymous ~ He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness. ~ Chinese Proverbs ~ The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ~ Thucydides ~ Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. ~ Joseph Barbara ~ Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ~ Dale Carnegie ~ Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. ~ Richard Bach ~ The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~ The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~ Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~ Mildred Barthel ~ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ~ Albert Einstein ~ The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~ Robert Brault ~ Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~ Dalai Lama ~ Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~ Anonymous ~ A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. ~ Josh Billings ~ Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. ~ William James ~ Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~ Jacques Prévert ~ Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. ~ Robert Brault ~ Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~ Robert Anthony ~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~ Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. ~ Michellee H. Schachtel ~ There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~ Robert Brault ~ The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. ~ Chuck Palahniuk ~ The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ~ John Mason Brown ~ It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ~ Charles Spurgeon ~ Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~ Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell ~ The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~ James Openheim ~ Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire ~ Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ~ William Shakespeare ~ But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~ Albert Camus ~ Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ~ Marcel Proust ~ As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci ~ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Aristotle ~ Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein ~ The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~ Anonymous ~ There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~ Freya Stark ~ It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~ Georges Duhamel ~ On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror. ~ Frank Tyger ~ The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~ James Oppenheim ~ The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld ~ The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.~ James Matthew Barrie ~ Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~ Saint Augustine ~ Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. ~ Dale Carnegie ~ The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping. ~ Dale Carnegie ~ To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ~ Victor Hugo ~ Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. ~ John Dryden ~ He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ~ George Eliot ~ It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli ~ True happiness is: to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~ To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness. ~ John Dewey ~ Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. ~ Joanna Field ~ There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. ~ Dennis Prager ~ The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~ Carrie P. Snow ~ The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~ William Saroyan ~ Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ C. S. Lewis ~ Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. ~ Rose Lane ~ Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~ Adam Smith ~ Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ~ Storm Jameson ~ Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ~ Alice Walker ~ Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. ~ Henry Van Dyke ~ We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ~ Honore de Balzac ~ Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. ~ Lyn Yutang ~ Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. ~ Mark Twain ~ Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~ Robert S. Lynd ~ 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 ~ Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ~ Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens ~ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust ~ Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Joseph Addison ~ Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity. ~ James Wilcox ~ Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. ~ Dale Carnegie ~ Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ 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 an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ~ J. Donald Walters ~ Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Francesca Reigler ~ You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~ Lavetta Sue Wegman ~ The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.~ Robert Brault ~ The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~ Epictetus ~ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the enjoyment of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~ The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. ~ Immanuel Kant ~ 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 ~ You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~ Albert Camus ~ To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~ The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame. ~ David E. Bresler ~ Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. ~ Tryon Edwards ~ There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~ I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ~ Martha Washington ~ Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. ~ Denis Waitley ~ 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 which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller ~ You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~ Frederick Keonig |
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