HAPPINESS QUOTES (9)
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
~Robert Brault
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
~Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.
~Author Unknown
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
~Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise.
~Author Unknown
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
~John Suckling
Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.
~J.M. Reinoso
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
~Thomas Merton, 1955
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
~Theodore Isaac Rubin
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
~John Dewey
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
~Nelson Mandela
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
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
~George Bernard Shaw
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~Carl Jung
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
~Aristotle
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
~Bill Vaughan
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
~Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
~William Butler Yeats
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
~Plato
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
~Ernest Hemingway
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~Honore de Balzac
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
~Dale Carnegie
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
~George Bernard Shaw
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
~George Orwell
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
~Norman Vincent Peale
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
~Barbara de Angelis
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
~Elbert Hubbard
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
~Dale Carnegie
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~Pablo Picasso
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