Happiness Quotes - Page 10

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire a little surplus to give you confidence a little too much work each day enthusiasm for your work a substantial share of good health a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

J. Kenfield Morley

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness... 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.

May you have warmth in your igloo oil in your lamp and peace in your heart.

What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?

Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures one or two friends worth the name someone to love and to love you a cat a dog enough to eat and enough to wear and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardice to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners to think seldom of your enemies often of your friends and every day of Christ and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.

Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.

Saint Augustine

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

If a man has important work and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Plato

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and no one can stop him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansbury

Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.

Dr. Boris Sokoloff

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness let me know. I'm ambitious for that too.

Learn how to feel joy.

Seneca

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann von Goethe

Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

Build a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.

Mary Frances Butts

This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.

Theodore De Banville

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

Happiness happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some pursue happiness others create it.

Anonymous

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses.

I love and the world is mine!

Florence Earle Coates

When love is out of your life you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going you have such vitality to do things big things because love is goosing you all the time.

A caress is better than a career.

Elizabeth Marbury

I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.

Ouida

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

When you come right down to it the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible-it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara De Angelis

Love is the only effective counter to death.

There is nothing ridiculous in love.

Olive Schreiner

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Conners as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.

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