Quotes on happiness
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. –
- Kitaro Nishida
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde
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
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.
-- Richard Bach.
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel.
-- Mildred Barthel.
"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
-- William Bennett
-- William Bennett
"What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
-- Richard Owen Cambridge.
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
-- Richard Owen Cambridge.
"He who sings frightens away his ills."
-- Cervantes
-- Cervantes
"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
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
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-- Helen Keller
-- Helen Keller
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-- Carl Jung
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 opened for us
. -- Helen Keller
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up
.-- Charles Langbridge Morgan
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