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When
one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often
we look so long at the closed door that we do not see
the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness
does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous
activities.
Aristotle
Happiness
resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling
of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
In
the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness
is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness;
it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
There
is only one person who could ever make you happy, and
that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
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
Men
spend their lives in anticipations,—in
determining to be vastly happy at some period when they
have time. But the present time has one advantage over
every other—it
is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have
not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we
would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting
of them too long, we shall find that both are soured
by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
Who
is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of
others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though
'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The
chances are that you have already come to believe that
happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it.
And they have attained it by realising that happiness
does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental
pleasure, but from the development of reason and the
adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day,
by Arnold Bennett
Happiness
is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides
of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Fortify
yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable
fortress.
Epictetus
Happiness
depends more on the inward disposition of mind than
on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
There
is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying
things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
I
have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires,
rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills
You're
happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
Action
may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great
effort from great motives is the best definition of
a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
There
is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
The
rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless
when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Happiness
grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked
in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness
is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To
be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness
depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try
to be happy in this present moment, and put not off
being so to a time to come,—as though that time should
be of another make from this which has already come
and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Knowledge
of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
No
man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
Our
minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling
to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by
the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
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