“The
purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
- Dalai Lama |
“Happiness
often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
- John Barrymore |
“Most
folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
- Abraham Lincoln |
“Happiness
is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
- Dalai Lama |
“Some
cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Be
happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have
to hunt for happiness.”
- William E. Gladstone |
“Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
- Mahatma Gandhi |
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
- Albert Einstein
|
“Don't
wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get
you've got to make yourself.”
- Alice Walker |
“Be happy
for this moment. This moment is your life.”
-Omar Khayyam |
“True
happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things
new.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
“The
Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to
catch it yourself.”
- Benjamin Franklin |
“It is
not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
- Charles Spurgeon |
“The
first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
- Andre Maurois |
“There
is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which
are beyond the power of our will.”
- Epictetus |
“For every minute
you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“Happiness
doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental
attitude.”
- Dale Carnegie |
“Happiness
is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
“Just do
what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
- George Bernard Shaw |
“There
are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling
their happiness to the unhappy.”
- Mark Twain |
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
- Aristotle |
“Happiness
in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
- Ernest Hemingway |
“True
happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity
to a worthy purpose.”
- Helen Keller |
“It is
neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you
happiness.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“But
what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he
leads?”
- Albert Camus |
“If your
happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
- Richard Bach |
“Action
may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
- Benjamin Disraeli |
“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 |
“Money
can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're
being miserable.”
- Clare Boothe Luce |
“The
greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky |
“There
is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
- George Sand |
“One of
the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature
shall not be broken.”
- Leo Tolstoy |
“Happiness
is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”
- Bernard Meltzer |
“Happiness
is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the
mind.”
- Marcel Proust |
“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 Green Ingersoll |
“There
is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
- Maria Mitchell |
“In
order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness -
otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”
- Leslie Caron |
“Genuine
happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of
joy.”
- Andrew Weil |
“The two
enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer |
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting
more, but those giving more.”
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
