Happiness
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- Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
- Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
- Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirits.
- He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- He is the richest who is content with the least.
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
- He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
- Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
- How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
- Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.
- Human life consists of a succession of small events, each of which is comparatively unimportant, and yet the happiness and success of every man depends upon the manner in which these small events are dealt with.
- Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
- I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.Dalai LamaCommonly attributed
- I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
- The world would be both better and brighter if we would dwell on the duty of happiness, as well as on the happiness of duty.
- I don’t have to have my way to have a good day.
- I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.
- I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
- I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
- I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
- I’d far rather be happy than right any day.Douglas AdamsSourced
- If great joy has come to you, pass it along, and thus do you double it.
- If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
- If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.
- If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness.
- If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
- If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
- If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.
- If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
- If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
- If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
- If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
- If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
- If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
- If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- If you want to be happy, be grateful.