Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. Colette
Happiness is not a goal; it is a
by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
A man's as miserable as he thinks he
is.
Seneca
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always
beyond our
grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham
Lincoln
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. Albert
Schweitzer
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. William Wordsworth
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to
what he
has. Henry Ward Beecher
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough
leisure to
wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William
Shakespeare
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his
joys.
If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot
has
enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and
your
joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
They must often change, who would be
constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward
and
discovers that the source is within him. Søren Kierkegaard
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his
happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the
life he leads?
Albert Camus
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as
the
old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the
time.
Josh Billings
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and
no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of
creative
effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after
directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the
achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make
happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our
willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that
but
simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
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