Joy has no cost.
~Marianne Williamson~
Joy is free,
unrestrained passion.
~Eileen Stukan~
Joy is a net of love by which
you can catch souls...
A joyful heart is the inevitable result
of a heart burning with love.
~Mother Theresa~
One imagines joy as a flame.
Like all flames it needs oxygen,
some life force, a combustible material,
a significant activity,
and then with the white heat
of profound effort or activity leading ultimately,
to inner satisfaction,
if not ebullience.
~Thomas J. Cottle~
Happiness is not a how,
not a what;
a talent,
not an object.
~Hermann Hesse~
How many joys are crushed underfoot
because people look up at the sky
and disregard what is at their feet.
~Attributed to mother of Johann Strauss~
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
which has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller~
Happiness is not a goal,
it is a by-product.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
~James Oppenheim~
Action may not bring happiness;
but there is not happiness without action.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
"If thou wants contentment, let thy deeds be few," said the sage.
Better still, limit them to such as are essential,
and to such as in social being reason demands, and as it demands.
This brings the contentment that comes
of doing a few things and doing them well.
~Marcus Aurelius~
The happiness person is the person
that thinks the most interesting thoughts.
~Timothy Dwight~
Happiness is a mystery,
like religion,
and should not be rationalized.
~G.K. Chesterton~
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get wha tyou want;
and, after that, to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
~Logan Pearsall Smith~
From contentment with little some happiness.
~African proverb~
Happiness is not having what you want,
but wanting what you have.
~Hyman Judah Schachtel~
I'm fulfilled in what I do...
I never thought a lot of money or fine clothes-
The finer things of life-
would make you happy.
My concept of happiness is to be fulfilled in a spiritual sense.
~Coretta Scott King~
Cultivate more joy by arranging you life
so that more joy will be likely.
~Georgia Watkin~
Well being is attained by little and little,
and nevertheless it is the little thing itself.
~Zeno of Citium~
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~Agnes Repplier~
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you
than on what happens.
~Andy Rooney~
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes,
but in liking what one has to do.
~James M. Barrie~
There is no duty we so much undertake
as the duty of beign happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson~
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales
whose gates are guarded by dragons:
we must fight in order to conquer it.
~Alexader Dumas~
Happiness is not a horse,
you cannot harness it.
~Russian proverb~
Ask yourself whether you are happy,
and you cease to be so.
~John Stuart Mill~
The search for happiness
is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~Eric Hoffer~
The greatest happiness you can have
is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
~William Shakespeare~
...joy runs deeper than despair.
~Corrie ten Boom~
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
~Chinese proverb~
For every minute you are angry
you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Happiness makes up in height
for what it lacks in length.
~Robert Frost~
But a lifetime of happiness!
No man alive could bear it:
it would be hell on earth.
~George Bernard Shaw~
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
~William Blake~
The is only one way to happiness
and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond
the powers of your control.
~Epictetus~
To see a World in a Grain of sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold infinity in the palm of you hand
And Eternity in and hour...
~William Blake~
Joking is undignified;
that is why it is so good for one's soul.
~G.K. Chesterton~
Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
~Frank Gerlett Burgess~
All love is sweet,
Given or returned.
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever...
They all inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am not;
but those who feel is most
Are happier still.
~Percy Bysshe Shelly~
The supreme happiness in life
is the conviction that we are loved.
~Victor Hugo~
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness;
Kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile.
~Mother Teresa~
Warm weather fosters growth;
cold weather destroys it.
Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has scant joy;
but a man with a warm and friendly heart has overflowing blessings,
and his beneficience will extend to prosterity.
~Hung Tzu-ch'eng~
If I thought a word of mine
Perhaps unkind and untrue,
Would leave its trace on a loved one's face
I'd never speak it -
Would you?
~Anonymous~
If I thought a smile of mine
Might linger the whole day through
And lighten some heart with a heavier part,
I'd not withhold it -
Would you?
~Anonymous~
Happiness is perfume,
you can't pour it on somebody else
without getting a gew drops on yourself.
~James Van DerZee~
A principal of fruit of friendship
is the ease of discharge of fulness and swellings of the heart,
which passions of all kinds
do cause and induce.
~Francis Bacon~
As in filling a vessel drop by drop,
there is at last a drop which makes it run over;
so in a series of kindnesses there is at last
on which makes the heart run over.
~James Boswell~
My creed is that:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
~Robert G. Ingersoll~
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcal Proust~
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed.
Therefore tho' others count me miserable,
I will not believe them if I know
and feel myself to be happy...
~Thomas Traherne~
I found that most people are about as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln~
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be and no one can stop him.
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn~
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
~Alexander Pope~
May you live all the days of your life.
~Jonathan Swift~
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