~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When you're in your nineties and looking back it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

Elizabeth Dole

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss.

Alexander Pope

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs good cash.

Sophie Tucker

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible-it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara De Angelis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love and to be hurt often and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

J. E. Buckrose

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To live and let live without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living and my human ideal.

Mary Baker Eddy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes a certain degree of courage self-denial to a point love of work and above all a clear conscience.

George Sand

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.

John Ruskin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you and not you overtake it.

John Burroughs

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Jane Howard

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Andre Gide

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller III