Happiness
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- A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
- A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
- A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
- A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
- A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
- A happy life doesn’t mean an easy life.
- A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.
- A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
- A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
- A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.
- A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies.
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
- Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false pleasure and true pleasure is put thus: for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it.
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
- Alter your attitude of mind towards it, and at once the crooked path is made straight, the unhappiness is turned into joy.
- Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
- An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.
- Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.Vaclav HavelSourced
- As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.
- Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
- Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
- Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."
- Call no man happy till you know the end of his life. Till then, at most, he can only be counted fortunate.
- Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
- Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
- Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
- Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world; some people go through life creaking.
- Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting men’s desires.
- Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.SocratesCommonly attributed
- Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure-grounds also.
- Despondency and cheerfulness, anger and calmness, covetousness and generosity--indeed, all states of mind--are habits built up by choice, until they have become automatic.