Happiness
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- The desire to be beloved is ever restless and unsatisfied; but the love that flows out upon others is a perpetual well-spring from on high.
- The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.
- The fastest road to an unhappy life is living it in a way that makes other people happy but leaves you miserable.
- The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can make up for that.
- The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- The grand essentials of happiness are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- The great thing about a positive attitude is that it creates its own ambiance. It is its own scenic overlook, its own cozy fire, its own sunset on the water.
- The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
- The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
- The habit of happy thought would transform the commonest life into harmony and beauty.
- The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand a year.
- The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
- The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.
- The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.
- The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
- The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.
- The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- The harvest of happiness is most often reaped by the hands of helpfulness.
- The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest of all.
- The joy of giving lasts longer than the joy of receiving.
- The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.Tom RobbinsSourced
- The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
- The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
- The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
- The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
- The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
- The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- The only joy in the world is to begin.
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
- The optimist listens for notes of joy; the pessimist hears sounds of gloom.
- The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many of them as possible.
- The pleasure of giving is necessary to true happiness; but the poor may have it.
- The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.