"Happiness is essentially a state of going
somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or
reservation."
william h. sheldon
"Wear a smile and have friends: wear a scowl and
have wrinkles."
george
eliot.
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to
enjoy simply, to think freely to risk life, to be needed."
storm jameson
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else
can."
elsa
maxwell
"To be without some of the things you want is an
indispensable part of happiness."
bertrand
russell
"No one could be more happy than a man who has
never known affliction."
demetrius phalerens, c. 300 b. c.
"It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we
may be unhappy."
"When ambition ends, happiness begins."
hungarian
proverb
"There is no duty we so much underrate, as the duty
of being happy."
robert
louis stevenson
"The secret of happiness is this: let your
interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and
persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than
hostile."
bertrand russell
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is
wanting what you get."
dale carnegie
"What life means to us is determined, not so much
by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much
by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens."
lewis l. dunnington
"People are constantly clamoring for the joy of
life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of
life - to learn something is a joy to me."
august strindberg
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and
it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
agnes repplier
"If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But
train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
mrs. ernest hemingway
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
ingrid
bergman
"Happiness consists in activity - it is a running
stream, not a stagnant pool."
john mason good
"There are many nights as days, and the one is just
as long as the other in the year's course. 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."
dr.
carl jung
"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence,
would be indispensable for the happiness of man."
samuel
johnson, c. 1770
"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
henry david
thoreau
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys
of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
archibald
rutledge
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy
is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make
others so."
robert g. ingersoll
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the
mind that lives."
william
cobbett, 1819
". . . there is only one way to achieve happiness
on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or
none at all."
ogden
nash
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from
the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and
conversation of a few select companions."
joseph
addison, 1711
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we
are loved."
victor
hugo
"Be unselfish. That is the first and final
commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness.
If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking
the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought
for others."
charles w. eliot
"One of the most tragic things I know about human
nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of
some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of
enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
dale carnegie
"Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to
do but from liking what we have to do."
wilfred peterson
"If one only wished to be happy, this could be
easier accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this
is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they
are."
montesquieu
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the
praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."
wilfred t. grenfell
"Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness
through another man's eyes."
william
shakespeare
"The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our
spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if
cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave,
use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.
If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its
tent like an Arab and silently steals away."
william
james
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to
enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
storm jameson
"The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual
cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the
moon, always clear and serene."
michel
de montaigne, 1580
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but
tranquillity and occupation, 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."
pierre coneille, el cid, 1636
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man
that getteth understanding."
the bible, proverbs 3:13
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes
incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a
wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and
very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming
of it."
nathaniel
hawthorne
"We are more interested in making others believe we
are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
la
rochefoucauld, 1665