Happiness

Happiness is different than pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

Among those whom I like and admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those who I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Jay Leno

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austin

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.

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

Helen Keller

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Timothy Dwight

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

From contentment with little comes happiness.

African proverb

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Hyman Judah Schachtel

Andy Rooney

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it.

Russian proverb

Joy runs deeper than despair.

Corrie ten Boom

Chinese proverb

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Epictitus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to chose life.

Leo Buscaglia

Joking is undignified; that's why it's good for the soul.

G. K. Chesterton

George Gordon, Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it - happiness was born a twin.

My 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 G. Ingersoll

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul blossom.

Marcel Proust

Abraham Lincoln

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

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The most utterly lost of all days, is that in which you have not once laughed.

Unknown

Christina Rossetti

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness it's poison.

Unknown

Everybody has their ups and downs so I decided to have mine between good and great.

Daniel Hoogtrerp

Unknown

Without my sense of humor, I doubt I'd have much sense at all.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Isabelle Eberhardt

One must never look for happiness; one meets it by the way.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Ben Franklin

Irish Proverb

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Anne Frank

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

Johnny Carson

Wil Courter

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

 

 

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