~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William Bennett

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

Charles L. Morgan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Henry Mencken

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Most true happiness comes from one's inner life from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly a good inner life is difficult to achieve especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

W. L. Shirer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and no one can stop him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not the birthdays the graduations the weddings not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Susan B. Anthony

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing 'to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot ' to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Cyril Connolly

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating drinking and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Sarah Bernhardt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us on a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords: but like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Samuel Johnson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]For attractive lips speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes seek out the good in people. For a slim figure share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

Audrey Hepburn