Happiness and Contentment Quotes and a Verse...

Happiness and Contentment Quotes and a Verse


"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.
I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation,
whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."
- Philippians 4:12
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"Be glad today for the clouds or the rainbows.
Both are meant for your good. And without both,
neither has meaning."
- Author Unknown
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"The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are."
- Desiderius Erasmus
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
- Aristotle
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“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or
misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
- Martha Washington
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."
- Ira Gershwin
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"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.
I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
- J. D. Salinger
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
- Roy M. Goodman
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"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
- Margaret Bonnano
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"If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end,
for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.'
- Robert Brault
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"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
- John Gunther

Happiness Quotes (Part 2)...

Happiness Quotes
(Part 2)

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
- Aristotle
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say,
and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
- Pearl S. Buck
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"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an
enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place,
from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the
friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
- Joseph Addison
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"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."
- Eddie Cantor
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"Happiness often sneaks in through a door
you didn't know you left open."
- John Barrymore
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"There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved."
- George Sand
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"The truth which has made us free will
in the end make us glad also."
- Felix Adler
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"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.
I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
- J. D. Salinger
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city."
- George Burns
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"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
- Rita Mae Brown

Happiness Quotes...

Happiness Quotes

"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions,
not our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
- Roy M. Goodman
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"I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace -
a connection to what matters."
- Oprah Winfrey
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"Many people 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
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- HH The Dalai Lama
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
- Mark Twain
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison
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"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply,
to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
- Storm Jameson
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"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering;
surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"
- Louise Bogan
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"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
- Margaret Bonnano
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"Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things:
first, in being where you belong, and second - and best -
in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had
a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes."
- Theodor Fontane
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

Of the quotes listed above, do you have a favorite? Why?
I collected tons of happiness quotes, so I will have
'Happiness part 2' next Friday... enjoy your weekend,
everyone! Val =)

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 =)

Cheerfulness Quotes...

Cheerfulness Quotes

"The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness;
her state is like the things above the moon,
always clear and serene."
- Michael de Montaigne
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"Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind,
lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work
with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful,
there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the
wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and
morality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth,
afterward in our hearts."
- Author Unknown
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“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
- Anne Frank
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"A smile is the light in the window that
lets people know you're home."
- Author Unknown
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along
life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison
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"If I keep a green bough in my heart,
the singing bird will come."
- A Chinese Proverb
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"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
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"The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and act and
speak as if cheerfulness were already there."
- William James
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"Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient
in the composition of health."
- Arthur Murphy
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"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more
it is spent, the more it remains."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man has to live with himself, and he should see
to it that he always has good company."
- Charles Evans Hughes
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"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a
bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom,
taking the world into my arms."
- Mary Oliver

Choosing Happiness...

Choosing Happiness
- by Ralph Marston

Happiness does not depend on whether or not you always get
your way. However, when you do choose happiness, events will
more often go your way.

You do not need to accumulate a lot of things before you can
be happy. Yet when you are happy, you'll open yourself up to all
kinds of new abundance...

Happiness is not something that you can obtain by taking it from
others. On the contrary, the more that happiness flows out from
you, the more of it you will enjoy.

If you limit your happiness only to certain specific situations or
conditions, it will almost always elude you. Yet when you seek
to bring happiness to every situation, it will be your constant
companion.

Happiness is not the exclusive experience of just a lucky few.
It is always there for anyone who is sincere and open enough
to choose it.

Happiness is always there to choose, in any place, at any time,
under a whole wide range of conditions. Give happiness to the
moments of life, and you will surely know it well.

- Ralph Marston -

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