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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw 1856

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci 1452

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing the service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869

Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung 1875

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

John J. Ingalls

Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson 1709

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

Og Mandino 1923

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Unknown

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

Unknown

Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.

Unknown

Some pursue happiness - others create it.

Unknown

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

Marguerite Duras

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Chinese Proverbs

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing

Napoleon Hill

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

G. K. Chesterton

The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dale E. Turner

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

We know the presence of each passing moment by its activity, but the power and eternity of the moment can only be realized through our choosing to be consciously passive to that presence.

Guy Finley

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Aristotle

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale 1898

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietyly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804

Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love .... kindness is goodwill, kindness says "I want you to be happy." Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.

Randolph Ray

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