Happiness
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- The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
- The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
- The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
- The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
- The surest cure for loneliness, the quickest way to happiness, is found in this, a simple creed: Go serve someone in greater need.
- The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
- The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
- The whole world is full of unworked joy-mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.
- The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
- The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
- There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
- There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
- There is in this world infinitely more joy than pain to be shared, if you will only take your share when it is set before you.
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
- There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
- There is no real life but cheerful life.
- There is no way to peace; peace is the way. There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. If you are determined, you can do it with your breathing.
- There is nothing that so deviously siphons the joy from our lives, so unfailingly destroys the capacity of anything to make us happy, as a sense of entitlement.
- There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- There is one way of attaining what we may term, if not utter, at least mortal happiness; it is by a sincere and unrelaxing activity for the happiness of others.
- There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
- There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.
- There's lots of things in which you can find happiness to-day, if you will only stop worrying about to-morrow.
- They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
- Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.Marthe Troly-CurtinSourced
- To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
- To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
- To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand RussellSourced
- To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
- To have blessings and to prize them is to be in Heaven; to have them and not to prize them is to be in Hell, I would say upon Earth.