Good Phrases for Happiness
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
Victor HugoA good exercise for the heart is bending down and helping someone to get up.
ProverbTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertThe foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James OppenheimA good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
William ShakespeareThe idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter BenjaminTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaMy creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green IngersollPerhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
David P. MikkelsonThat's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
CalvinNever fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow - the wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart-blood circulate healthily and freely; unhappiness - the chilling pressure which produces here an inflammation, there an excrescence and worst, of all, "the mind's green and yellow sickness" - ill temper.
Ann E. BrayHappiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George BurnsA man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren KierkegaardLaughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh BillingsHappiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas SzaszThe secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al BattThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William CowperRemember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. GoodmanHappiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm JamesonDepend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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