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Happiness
is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
For
ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible
to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so ; happiness is
a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of
themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful
design.
Mme. De Girardin
We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
Our
minds are as different as our faces: we all want to travel to one destination;
--happiness; but we're not all going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
The
sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the
time.
Dr. John Aiken
Who
is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice
in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
Never
give way to melancholy. Nothing encroaches more. I fight against it vigorously.
One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now ?
Are you likely to remain so till tomorrow or next month, or next year
? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never
come at all, or you may never live to see ? For every substantial grief
has twenty shadows, and many of them shadows of your own making.
Sydney Smith
A
happy person is not a person in a certain
set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess. He who wants little always has enough. Zimmermann
The
happiness of life is made up of minute fractions— the little soon-forgotten
charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the
disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals
of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A
happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life
permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote
to feel its heart throb.
Henry Wood
To
be secure, be humble. To be happy, be content.
James Hurdis
Money
never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature
to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of
its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles
and trebles that want another way.
Benjamin Frankin
Happy
the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the perfecting
of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The
hour of happiness will be the more welcome,
the less it was expected.
(Grata superveniet qute non sperabitur hora.)
Horace
To
love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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