Happiness
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- Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
- Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
- Little is needed to make a wise man happy, but nothing can content a fool.La RochefoucauldCommonly attributed
- Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you.
- Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
- Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.Sydney SmithCommonly attributed
- Man's only true happiness is to live in Hope of something to be won by him, in Reverence of something to be worshipped by him, and in Love of something to be cherished by him, and cherished--for ever.
- Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
- True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.Charles Caleb ColtonSourced
- Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
- Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.Robert AnthonyCommonly attributed
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
- No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
- No man on earth is so happy as the man who loves his work and goes home at night with a contented heart because of a good day’s work well done.
- No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved.
- No matter how educated or wealthy you are, if you don’t have peace of mind, you won’t be happy.
- No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish. There is something in each day that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it.
- No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor RooseveltCommonly attributed
- No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
- No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
- Not only great happiness but great power arises from doing little things unselfishly, wisely, and perfectly, for life in its totality is made up of little things.
- Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.
- Nourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.
- Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.John Mason GoodCommonly attributed
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
- Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that on which one has not laughed.