Happiness Quotes and a Verse...

Happiness Quotes and a Verse

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him,
and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks
to Him in song."
- Psalm 28:7
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"Happiness is a present attitude - not a future condition."
- Hugh Prather
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"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean
they've gotten lost."
- H. Jackson Browne
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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Openheim
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"If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child,
I think there can be no happiness greater than this."
- Kitaro Nishida
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"If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat,
writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias or
looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be
searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had
rolled under the radiator, striving for it as a goal in itself.
He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of
living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day."
- W. Beran Wolfe
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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship,
and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our
happiness in the hands of others!"
- William Hazlitt
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"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true
meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."
- Norm Papernick
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"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs
of your heart."
- Mort Walker
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"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a
poor memory."
- Albert Schweitzer

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 =)