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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON HAPPINESS 5
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949, Belgian author)
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker) Author's website: www.ogmandino.com
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis (1878-1937, American humorist, journalist)
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.
Don Marquis (1878-1937, American humorist, journalist)
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis (1878-1937, American humorist, journalist)
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis (1878-1937, American humorist, journalist)
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Valerius Martial (40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist)
The busiest man is the happiest man.
Theodore Martin
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Theodore Martin
Best trust the happy moments.... The days that make us happy make us wise.
John Masefield (1878-1967, British poet and novelist)
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970, American psychologist)
Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Andre Maurois (1885-1967, French writer)
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Andre Maurois (1885-1967, French writer)
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell (1676-1744, British 5th Earl of Nithsdale)
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell (1676-1744, British 5th Earl of Nithsdale)
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays (1931-, American baseball player)
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer (1914-, American law professor)
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968, American religious writer, poet)
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell (1847-1922, British poet, essayist)
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873, British philosopher, economist)
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873, British philosopher, economist)
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman
Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
Sandor Minab
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles De Montesquieu (1689-1755, French jurist, political philosopher)
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Charles De Montesquieu (1689-1755, French jurist, political philosopher)
We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Charles De Montesquieu (1689-1755, French jurist, political philosopher)
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957, American novelist, journalist, poet)
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.
Kenfield J. Morley
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness...is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase "the pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990, British broadcaster)
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max Muller (1823-1900, British philosopher, philologist)
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916, British novelist, writer)
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
Iris Murdoch (1919-, British novelist, philosopher)
Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.
James Muriel (American author, lecturer)
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Fay B. Nash
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971, American humorous poet)
It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I like to work out. I like to play ball. I like to spend time with my friends. I like to make myself better every day. I like to try to learn. It doesn't take money to do that.
Steve Nash
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
A. Nielsen (1897-1980, American businessman, market researcher)
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
He who would be happy should stay at home.
Greek Proverb (Sayings of Greek origin)
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Hasidic Proverb (Sayings of Hasidic origin)
Being happy in one's home is better than being a chief.
Nigerian Proverb (Sayings of Nigerian origin)
No one gives joy or sorrow. We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
Putnam VI
Happiness is, in the end, a simple thing. Happiness is really caring and being able to do something about the caring.
Brian O'Connell
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897, British novelist, historian)
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Austin O'Malley
Happiness hates the timid!
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953, American dramatist)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967, American nuclear physicist)
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")
Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer
Just for today I will be happy. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime. Just for today.
Sybyl F. Partridge
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703, British diarist)
Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Wilfred A. Peterson
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911, American writer)
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
William Lyon Phelps
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness the happiest individual would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
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 (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny The Elder (c.23-79, Roman neophatonist)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
Channing Pollock (1946-, American actor)
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
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.
Jane Porter (1776-1850, British novelist)
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Jane Porter (1776-1850, British novelist)
The only truly happy people are those who have found someone or some cause to love and belong to.
John Powell
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Duchess Prazlin
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prevert (1900-1977, French poet)
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Prince (1958-, American musician, singer, guitarist, actor, songwriter)
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
Eskimo Proverb
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