QuotationS - Happiness

o         Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.Seneca 

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Aurelius, Marcus 

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Camus, Albert 

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you?James, Henry 

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Wharton, Edith 

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.Stoddard, Alexandra

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.Blake, William 

The only joy in the world is to begin.Pavese, Cesare 

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Bradley, Amanda 

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Dickinson, Emily 

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.Jefferies, Richard 

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be 
no greater happiness than this.Nishida, Kitaro 

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the momentO'Keefe, Georgia 

The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.Chesterton G. K. 

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.Cantor, Eddie 

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.Stendhal 

Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum.Tov, Baal Shem 

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Emerson, Ralph Waldo 

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Erasmus 

You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future. 
Anonymous 

I want to sing like the birds sing not worrying about who hears or what they think.Rumi 

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.Meir, Golda 

The quieter you become the more you can hear.Dass, Baba Ram 

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.Shakespeare, William 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.Lubbock, Sir J. 

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.Penn, William 

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.Maudsley, Henry

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Lincoln, Abraham 

Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.Colao, Flora 

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is 
the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Grant, Amy 

When you delight in the game, the effort seems unimportant.Anonymous 

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth 
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Gibran, Kahlil 

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, 
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.Blake, William

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Kierkegaard, Soren 

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.Parton, Dolly 

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.Andrus, Ethel Perry 

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.Anonymous 

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.Lindbergh, Anne Morrow 

People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong.... Why not try and see positive things,
to just touch those things and make them bloom. 
Hanh, Thich Nhat 

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.Gibran, Kahlil 

Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Gibran, Kahlil 

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a matter of traveling. 
Runbeck, Margaret 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.Openhelm, James 

Laughter is the shortest distance between two peopleBorge, Victor 
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Roosvelt, Eleanor 
Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.Barrymore, John 

The best remedy for anger is delay.Young , Brigham 

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. 
Lew Wallace

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.Dickinson, Emily 

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. 
Sara Teasdale

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. 
Agnes Repplier

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. 
Jean Paul Richter

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think. 
Francois duc la Rochefoucauld

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. 
Francois duc la Rochefoucauld

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers 
Leo Rosten

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. 
Leo Rosten

Make the most of yourself that is all there is to youEmerson, Ralph Waldo 

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. 
Dillard, Anne 

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselvesMatthews, Caitlin 

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.Miller, Henry

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Washington 

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."Agatha Christie

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.Law, William 

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Addison, Joseph 

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Addison, Joseph 

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

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.Anonymous

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.Ingersoll, Robert

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. 
J. Brotherton 

A smile is curve that sets everything straight.Anonymous 

The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget itAeschylus 

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.Anonymous 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 
Addison

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."Meister Eckhart

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Kennedy

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.Barrymore, Ethel 

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."Seneca

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."Emily Dickenson

"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."Anonymous 

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."Will Durant

"Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything."Rumi 

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.Morgenstern, Christion 

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.O'Malley, Austin

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.Elliot, Henry 

The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.Twain, Mark 

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.Anonymous 

Life is too important to take seriously.Wilde, Oscar 

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Rudnick, Paul 

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , 
and attended to my answer.Thoreau, Henry David 

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to beLincoln, Abraham