HAPPINESS QUOTES (4)
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
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 is a form of courage.
~Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
~Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
~Christian Nestell Bovee
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~Frederick Keonig
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
~Berke Breathed
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
~Robert Brault
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
~Peter Drucker
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
~Blaise Pascal
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
~Princess Diana
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
~Andy Rooney
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
~Malcolm Forbes
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
~George Sand
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
~Alexandre Dumas
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~Carl Sandburg
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
~Immanuel Kant
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
~Marquis de Sade
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
~Jose Marti
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
~Friedrich Schiller
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~Ambrose Bierce
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
~Baltasar Gracian
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
~William Feather
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~Ben Jonson
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
~Andre Gide
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
~Ogden Nash
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
~Anatole France
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
~Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
~Euripides
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
~David Lee Roth
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~Ashley Montagu
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
~Desiderius Erasmus
No comments:
Post a Comment