Showing posts with label famous quotes on happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label famous quotes on happiness. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2009

Happiness Quotes and a note...

Happiness Quotes

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance
and order and rhythm and harmony."
- Thomas Merton
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"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
- George Sand
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"Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of
poetry under a shade tree."
- Astrid Alauda
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"To be happy, it first takes being comfortable in your own shoes.
The rest can work up from there."
- Sophia Bush
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or
unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
- Groucho Marx
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"Growth itself contains a germ of happiness."
- Pearl S. Buck
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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love,
grace and gratitude."
- Denice Waitley
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"The secret of human happiness is not in
self-seeking but in self-forgetting."
- Theodore Reik
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"Happiness is what you think, what you say,
and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath,
a breeze, a moment's glance - it is little that makes the best happiness."
- Friedrich Nietzche
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"The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience."
- Edward Gibbon
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"Happiness itself is a kind of gratitude."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others
can not keep it from themselves."
- James Matthew Barrie

Do you have a favorite? I was really struck by J. W. Krutch's "Happiness itself is
a kind of gratitude. I am going to do 'Happiness, Part 2' in the future. Oh, my
dad is doing very well after his second surgery and is, in fact, on his way home
from the hospital!! They don't keep you long anymore, do they? Thanks for
your prayers, everyone! Hugs, Val =)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Quotes on Happiness...

Quotes on Happiness

"At first, I only laughed at myself.
Then I noticed that life itself is amusing.
I've been in a generally good mood ever since."

- Marilyn vos Savant


"The person who knows how to laugh at himself
will never cease to be amused."

-
Shirley Maclaine

"The best revenge is happiness."

- Susan Lindt


"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.
I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

- J.D. Salinger


"The thing with pretending you're in a
good mood is that sometimes you can actually
trick yourself into feeling better."

- Charles de Lint, Memory & Dream

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Quotes on Happiness

Quotes on Happiness

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

- Agnes Repplier


"Why not seize the pleasure at once?
How often is happiness destroyed
by preparation, foolish preparation!"

- Jane Austen


"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how
dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

- Hosea Ballou


"It takes great wit and interest and energy
to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a
great activity. One must be open and alive.
It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish."

- Robert Herrick


"The happiness of a man in this life
does not consist in the absence but
in the mastery of his passions."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Quotes on Happiness...

Quotes on Happiness

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

"In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself.
If you aren't happy in one place, chances are
you won't be happy in any place."

- Ernie Banks

"Calmness is the cradle of power."

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover
how unlonely being alone can be."

- Ellen Burstyn