A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." "Happiness depends upon ourselves." "Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves." "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." "He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." "Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." "If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time." "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." "Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys." "Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other." "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." "Happiness is the natural flower of duty." "This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this." "People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." "We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all." "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." "Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking." "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." "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" "To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others". "In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?" "You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." "Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." "Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental." "One joy scatters a hundred griefs." "The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose." "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." "Be happy. It's one way of being wise." "What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise." "To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread." "There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." "Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." "As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves." "Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart." "If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." "Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away." "The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." "It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely." "Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?" "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." "Happiness is a function of accepting what is." "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it." "A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness." "Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy." "The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. " "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." "Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society." "Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness." "Happiness is a direction, not a place." "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." "Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it." "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." "Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness." "Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool." "It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed." "On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." "It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God." "Happiness is a form of courage." "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind." "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." "Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." "Misery is almost always the result of thinking." "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." "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." "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." "Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around." "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." "We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier." "Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important." "Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe." "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." "Happiness is the soundtrack of my life." "When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land." "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." "Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve." "When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. " "Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness." "We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it." "Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money." "Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness." "Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. " "Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind." "’Well," said Pooh, ‘what I like best,’ and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. "The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was - or wasn't." "I hate being happy. It pisses me off. Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes. And I hate just looking. I always try to grab." "The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up." "Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age." "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." "Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness." "One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers." "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." "Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy." "Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." "Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own." "Happiness is a way station between too little and too much." "When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost." "Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." "The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony." "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Happiness quotes for ‘Q’ to follow. If you have any suggestions, email us at happiness@fsmail.net and put ‘Happiness Quotes’ in the subject line. "I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen." "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." "The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable." "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling." "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years." "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." "If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars." "All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness." "The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid." "I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." "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?" "Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory." "A man's as miserable as he thinks he is." "My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy." "The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not." "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." "Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not." "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." "The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." "Happiness is never stopping to think if you are." "When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse." "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." "Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." "Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable." "So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some." "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." "One filled with joy preaches without preaching." "She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway." "If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. " "If you want to be happy, be. " "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Happiness quotes for ‘U’ to follow. If you have any suggestions, email us at happiness@fsmail.net and put ‘Happiness Quotes’ in the subject line. Happiness quotes for ‘V’ to follow. If you have any suggestions, email us at happiness@fsmail.net and put ‘Happiness Quotes’ in the subject line. "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." "You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance." "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate." "If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day." "Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find." Happiness quotes for ‘X’ to follow. If you have any suggestions, email us at happiness@fsmail.net and put ‘Happiness Quotes’ in the subject line. "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." "Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?" |
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