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When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Saint Augustine

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld

With a little discipline and regular self-checks you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.

Elaine St. James

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today my husband Larry and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Anonymous

Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

Artur Rubinstein

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Better to be happy than wise.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

Leddy Schmeligh

Each person on this planet is inherently intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.

Douglas Malloch

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?

John Oliver Hobbes

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Lydia Maria Child

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

If you want to be happy set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy get enthusiastic about something.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate your mind from worry. Live simply expect little give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

La Rochefoucauld

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

James Van Praagh

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

We all have 100% to deal with in our lives: 10% is important 90% unimportant. The secret to a happy productive life is to deal with the 10% and let the 90% slip.

Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.

Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.

Michel de Montaigne

Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

James Russell Lowell

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

Ovid

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Sir Arthur Helps

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia Maria Child

Cheerfulness is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Anonymous

If God came in and said "I want you to be happy for the rest of your life " what would you do?

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.

Seneca

Many people think that if they were only in some other place or had some other job they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

Alfred A. Montapert

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

William Hazlitt

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

Bo Lozoff

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

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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