Happiness Quotes - Page 6

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.

When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell 0 storms! Farewell.

Louise Imogen Guiney

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

Alain-Rene Lesage

All happiness is in the mind.

Anonymous

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Barbara Pletcher

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14 600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Frances Ridley Havergal

The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

Lionel Barrymore

All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

Charlotte Brontë

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

Spanish Proverb

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

English Proverb

The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship keep them till full-blown You will find more happiness than you have ever known.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Chinese Proverb

When you dig another out of their troubles you find a place to bury your own.

Anonymous

Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Anonymous

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

Cher

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

In violent and chaotic times such as these our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order in making little havens of our homes.

Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

For most of life nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job huge amounts of money a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If on the other hand happiness depends on a good breakfast flowers in the yard a drink or a nap then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.

Mary Ann Allison

Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.

Elizabeth Arden

Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

All the goodness beauty and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

Georgette Leblanc

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow too but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris a lark a bluebird or a dewy morning glory.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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