~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but my friend these I reckon will give you a good lift.

Abraham Lincoln

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

Marcus Aurelius

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures one or two friends worth the name someone to love and to love you a cat a dog enough to eat and enough to wear and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness is so hard to define and foolish to define. Am I acting? That's the worst thing you can ask yourself. You can be happy suddenly. It can spring on you not when you reach a plateau. You can be happy going backward or going down. You can be happy at the loss of something.

Steve Martin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

Anna Quindlen

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying 'Wow this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself.' If there's something else to happiness let me know. I'm ambitious for that too.

Harrison Ford

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

Lady Isabel Burton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first some unfinished business; time still to be served a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Bette Howland

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today this hour this minute is the day the hour the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good with all of its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them.

Robert R. Updegraff

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: 'A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire a little surplus to give you confidence a little too much work each day enthusiasm for your work a substantial share of good health a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

J. Kenfield Morley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Thomas Carlyle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent and so would always be able to have water in abundance how fortunate he would consider himself; so too when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Seren Kierkegaard