Happiness
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- If you want to be happy, be kind to others.
- If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
- If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
- In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
- In my opinion, we might all draw more good from it than we do, and suffer less evil, if we would but take care not to give too much for whistles.
- In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
- In such a world as this a man who is rich in himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at Christmastide, while without are the frost and snow of a December night.
- In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle.
- Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.
- Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
- "Is not life useful when it is happy?" asks the egotist. "Is it not sufficiently happy when it is useful?" asks the good man.
- It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- It is a great blunder in the pursuit of happiness, not to know when we have got it; that is, not to be content with a reasonable and possible measure of it.
- It is cheerfulness, the temper which makes the best of things and squeezes the little drops of honey even out of thistle-blossoms.
- It is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy.
- It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hope itself is happiness and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
- It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
- It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
- It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
- It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness.
- It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make any one happy or miserable.
- It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy.Cary GrantSourced
- It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
- It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
- It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
- I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
- Joy in one’s work is the consummate tool without which the work may be done indeed, but without which the work will always be done slowly, clumsily, and without its finest perfectness.
- Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous. For all my hardships, I have been able to remain quite joyful, for my muscles are strong.
- Joy is not in things, it is in us.
- Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.Mother TeresaSourced
- Joy wholly from without is false, precarious and short. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet, and fair, and lasting.
- Kindness of heart is always happy.
- Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
- Let us ask the Gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than consuming them.
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
- Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.