Happiness
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- Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.Arthur C. BrooksSourced
- Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
- Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy.
- Don’t allow anyone to steal your joy.
- Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
- Don't dream of happiness; deserve it.
- Don’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
- Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
- Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Even when life isn't good on the outside, you have an option to make it good from the inside out.
- Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy.
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. A friend shares my sorrow, and makes it but a moiety; but he swells my joy, and makes it double.
- Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.
- Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
- Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
- Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.Joseph CampbellSourced
- Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.Joseph CampbellSourced
- For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- For your mind to function at its highest capacity, you’ve got to be charged with good cheer and optimism.
- Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.Sydney J. HarrisSourced
- Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
- Give me health and a day, and I will make ridiculous the pomp of emperors.
- Glory's not otherwhere but here: Yonder stars may be more horrible than the worst of Earth. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance: The wise grows it under his feet.
- Go to your task with love in your heart and you will go to it light-hearted and cheerful.
- God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
- God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
- Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
- Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
- Gratitude is what you feel when you want what you already have.
- Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
- Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others.
- Happiness and true success depend upon how the troubles and difficulties of life are met.
- Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
- Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.