Cheerfulness
keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it
with a steady and perpetual serenity.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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The
happiness of any society begins with the well
being of the families that live in it.
– Kofi Annan
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"What's
the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
-- George Asaf
"The
best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
-- Richard Bach.
"Happiness
is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel.
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"Good
nature is worth more than knowledge, more than
money, more than honor..."
-- Henry Ward
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How
to be happy all the time: Be grateful for what
you have and do nice things for other people.
Remember you are not doing nice things for other
people for them; you are doing nice to other
people because it makes you happy.
-- Arlan Berglas
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If
you really want to be happy, always try to do what’s
right.
-- Bill Blackman
The
way to happy-- keep your heart free from hate,
your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little,
give much.
-- Carol Borges
True
peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that
satisfying desires brings pleasure.
-- Joan Borysenko
There
may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but
the two combined make happiness
-- John Buchan
"What
is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
-- Richard Owen Cambridge.
“You
have it easily in your power to increase the sum total
of this world's happiness now. How?
By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone
who is lonely or discouraged.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you
say today, but the recipient may cherish them over
a lifetime.”
-- Dale Carnegie
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Service
to a just cause rewards the worker with more
real happiness and satisfaction than any other
venture of life.
-- Carrie Chapman
Catt
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"He
who sings frightens away his ills."
-- Cervantes
The
happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet, And left to
Heaven the rest.
-- John V. Cheney
True
contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It
is the power of getting out of any situation all that
there is in it. It is arduous and rare.
-- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"If
you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone
else.
-- Chinese proverb
The
happiness of life is made up of minute fractions --
the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile,
a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless
infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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I
think happiness comes from self-acceptance.
We all try different things, and we find some
comfortable sense of who we are. We look at
our parents and learn and grow and move on.
We change.
-- Jamie Lee
Curtis
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Human
Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the
right to pursue happiness and live in peace
and freedom.--
14th
Dalai Lama
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Simplicity
is extremely important for happiness. Having
few desires, feeling satisfied with what you
have, is very vital...”
- The Dalai
Lama
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"The
joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiasticus. XXX. 22
Action
may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness
without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
