Three grand essentials to happiness
in this life are something to do, something
to love, and something to hope for.
?Joseph Addison
There is no point to samba if
it doesn't make you smile.
?Alma Guillermoprieto
Life is to be fortified by many
friendships. To love and to be loved is
the greatest happiness of existence.
?Sydney Smith
Men of the noblest dispositions
think themselves happiest when others
share their happiness with them.
?Barry Duncan
To live we must conquer incessantly,
we must have the courage to be happy.
?Henri-Frederic Amiel
The really happy man never laughs -
seldom - though he may smile. He does not
need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping,
is a relief of mental tension -
and the happy are not over strung.
?Prof F A P Aveling
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued;
being happy engrosses the whole attention.
?E F Benson
But what is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads.
?Albert Camus
Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not
unhappy is because they are not trying to
impress other birds and horses.
?Dale Carnegie
Many people think that if they were only in
some other place, or had some other job, they
would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as
much happiness out of what you are doing
as you can and don't put off being
happy until some future date.
?Dale Carnegie
There is this difference between happiness and
wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest
man, really is so; but he who thinks himself
the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
?C C Colton
The happiness of most people we know
is not ruined by great catastrophes or
fatal errors, but by the repetition of
slowly destructive little things.
?Ernest Dimnet
Happiness is a perfume which you
cannot pour on someone
without getting some on yourself.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the indictments of civilizations is
that happiness and intelligence are
so rarely found in the same person.
?William Feather
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the
real world, whether you have money or not.
?Jerry Gellis
It is not the place, nor the condition,
but the mind alone that can
make anyone happy or miserable.
?Roger L'Estrange
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
You have succeeded in life when all you
really want is only what you really need.
?Vernon Howard
He is rich who owes nothing.
?Hungarian Proberb
Happiness comes of the capacity to
feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think
freely, to risk life, to be needed.
?Storm Jameson
Many persons have the wrong idea
of what constitutes true happiness. It is
not attained through self-gratification but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
?Helen Keller
Many search for happiness as we
look for a hat we wear on our heads.
?Nikolaus Lenus
Remember that happiness is as contagious
as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who
are happy to let others know of their gladness.
?Maurice Materlinck
Ask yourself whether you are
happy and you cease to be so.
?John Stuart Mill
If one only wished to be happy, this
could be easily accomplished; but we
wish to be happier that other people, and
this is always difficult, for we believe
others to be happier than they are.
?Montesquieu
We are more interested in making
others believe we are happy than
in trying to be happy ourselves.
?Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Happiness is the only sanction of life;
where happiness fails, existence remains
a mad and lamentable experience.
?George Santayana
Lead the life that will make you
kindly and friendly to everyone
about you, and you will be surprised
what a happy life you will lead.
?Charles M Schwab
The pursuit of happiness is a most
ridiculous phrase; if you pursue
happiness you'll never find it.
?C P Snow
Cherish all your happy moments;
they make a fine cushion for old age.
?Booth Tarkington
Happiness cannot be traveled to,
owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience
of living every minute with love,
grace and gratitude.
?Denis Waitley
Happiness will never come to those who
fail to appreciate what they already have.
?Anonymous
If happiness could be brought,
few of us could pay the price.
?Anonymous
Happiness is in the heart,
not in the circumstances.
?Anonymous
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
?Anonymous
The celebrated Galen said that employment
was nature's physician. It is indeed so
important to happiness that indolence is
justly considered the parent of misery.
?C C Colton
So live that your memories will
be part of your happiness.
?Anonymous
Without relationships, no matter how
much wealth, fame, power, prestige
and seeming success by the standards
and opinions of the world one has, happiness
will constantly eluded him.
?Sidney Madwed
