Happiness
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- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Happiness consists in the enjoyment of little pleasures scattered along the common path of life, which, in the eager search for some great and exciting joy, we are apt to overlook.
- Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.
- Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.Leo TolstoyCommonly attributed
- Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
- Happiness depends on the taste, and not on the thing: and it is by having what we like that we are made happy, and not by having what others consider likeable.
- Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.
- Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
- Happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.Dennis PragerSourced
- Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
- Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
- Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.
- Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
- Happiness is an inside job.
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable.
- Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
- Happiness is not a goal to pursue. It’s a byproduct of leading a life of meaning and engagement.
- Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.Aldous HuxleySourced
- Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
- Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
- Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
- Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.Jane PorterCommonly attributed
- Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.Jim RohnCommonly attributed
- Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
- Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
- Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.Christopher MorleySourced
- Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
- Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
- Happiness is the product of habitual right thinking.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
- Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.
- Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.