Showing posts with label happiness sayings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness sayings. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

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

Friday, August 21, 2009

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 =)