~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Julia Child

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Henry James

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Carol Holmes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Susan Kaufman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles which afford the mind a healthful stimulus and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.

E. Wigglesworth

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To make a man happy fill his hands with work his heart with affection his mind with purpose his memory with useful knowledge his future with hope and his stomach with food.

Frederick E. Crane

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Henry James

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

R. H. Tawney

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If we could learn how to balance rest against effort calmness against strain quiet against turmoil we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.

Josephine Rathbone

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Robert Henri

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton