HAPPINESS

Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened!
Dr. Seuss

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Source Unknown

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is a positive cash flow.
Fred Adler

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
John F. Kennedy

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
William James

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
Russell (Wayne) Baker

Let’s remember that suicide, as well as happiness can become a feeling.
Sorin Cerin

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Confucius

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Koenig

Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates

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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
Robert Heinlein

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Bruce Lee

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
Erik H. Erikson

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
Boris Sokoloff

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
David Grayson

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Lao-Tzu

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
Orison Swett Marden

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
Veda Upanishads

The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino

To Have Happiness, is like being wealthy to god.
Neida pacheco

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul Richter

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
Iris Murdoch

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
Richard Rohr

He is rich who owes nothing.
Hungarian Proverbs

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Russian Proverbs