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Happiness
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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Mason, John L.
Where one is wise two are happy.
Proverb
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Chambers, Oswald
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
James, William
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.
Peggy Orenstein
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Maurier, Daphne Du
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.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Yeats, William Butler
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Jefferson, Thomas
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Levenson, Samuel
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Rooney, Andy
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Cervantes, Miguel De
Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
Bonnell, John S.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
Colton, Charles Caleb
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Solon
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Kant, Immanuel
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Jerrold, Douglas William
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Landor, Walter Savage
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
Horton, Doug
Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Macewan, Norman
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
Dewey, John
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Rubinstein, Arthur
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Marden, Orison Swett
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Stein, Ben
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Maxwell, William
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
David Assael
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Dyer, Wayne
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alda, Alan
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
James, William
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of Manu
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Kafka, Franz
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison, Joseph
The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.
Kindleberger, J.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Alcott, Louisa May
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
Twain, Mark
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