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  Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick 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 What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne 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 Browne It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”) Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 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. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931 This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown 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 Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets 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 Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer,The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill,Autobiography, 1873 We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com 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 Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M." Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock,Mr. Moneypenny The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. ~Colley Cibber  |
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