Happiness
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- Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest.
- One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
- Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
- Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
- Owning less is great. Wanting less is better.
- Persist in feeling cheerful, hopeful, optimistic and strong.
- Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
- Place before thyself the ideal of perfection, not that of happiness, for by doing what makes thee wiser and better, thou shalt find the peace and joy in which happiness consists.John Lancaster SpaldingSourced
- Pleasure can be supported by illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
- Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.William FeatherCommonly attributed
- Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
- Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.Hosea BallouCommonly attributed
- Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
- Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe.
- Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Remember that few people are as happy as the image they present. See past their facades and you will appreciate what you have.
- Remember this, — that very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
- Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.
- Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.
- Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.Thich Nhat HanhCommonly attributed
- Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.Joyce MeyerCommonly attributed
- Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.
- Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity.
- The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- The best way to be miserable is by comparing yourself to others.
- The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within: the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.
- The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness.
- The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.
- The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.