Happiness Quotes
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness." Maurice Materlinck
"I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems." Ray Kroc
"Do not let anyone or anything outside of your own control tell you or suggest to you what will make you happy. That decision of what is happiness is up to you and you alone to create and cherish." Catherine Pulsifer, Happiness, An Inspirational Thought
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." George Bernard Shaw
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys." Christian Nestell Bovee
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller
"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.” Josh Billings
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." Maxim Gorky
To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." Earl Nightingale
"Sharing time and talents can result in discoveries that bring happiness beyond measure." Steve Brunkhorst
"Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile you'll . . .be cheerful because you smile." Kenneth Goode
"Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life." Laurence Sterne
"Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe."
Doug Larson
"The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while,
that costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile."
W.D. Nesbit
"Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking."
H.W. Byles
"Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight..."
Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
William Cowper
"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses
are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."
Wisdom from Dale Carnegie
"One joy scatters a hundred griefs."
Chinese Proverb
"It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong."
Author Unknown
"Jumping for joy is good exercise." Author Unknown
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hillis
"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you." Sharon Stone
"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." Japanese Proverb
"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens."
Douglas Jerrold
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Samuel Johnson
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.
Charlie Brown
"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."
Henry David Thoreau
"One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
Eugene O'Neill
"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually." Stephen Covey
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Words of wisdom from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."
Ausonius
"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."
Mother Teresa
"Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."
William Wordsworth
"Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance."
Jim Rohn
"It doesn't get any better than this." Author Unknown
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." Marcus A. Antoninus
"For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you."
Helen Steiner Rice
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
Seneca
"It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God." Jean Ingelow
"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
John D. Rockefeller
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." Scottish Proverb
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
Leo Tolstoy
"Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product."
Henry Ford
"What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile."
George Asaf
"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." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work. Money can never buy happiness, or peace of mind."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Love What You Do
"Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude."
Albert Einstein
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Anne Frank
"Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very
best person you can possibly be."
Brian Tracy
"It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely." Georges Duhamel
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
Buddha
"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."
Charles Kingsley
"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."
Horace Friess
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