Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Quotes on Happiness

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful"
-Albert Schweitzer

"If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this"
- Kitaro Nishida

"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 not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
- William Bennett

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
- John Stuart Mill

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. - Mildred Barthel

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." - Bernard Meltzer.

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude"
-Denis Waitley

"Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature"
-Charles Kingsley

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity"
-Joseph Addison

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy"
-Gretta Brooker Palmer

"Happiness depends upon ourselves" -Aristotle




"Happiness is not something we find, it's something we create…. Its the small things in life that fill us with joy"
-Author Unknown

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure"
-Francoise de Motteville

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion"
-HH the Dalai Lama

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved" -George Sand

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present"
-Jim Rohn

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values"
-Ayn Rand

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
-Aristotle

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks"
-Charles Dickens

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows"-Helen Keller

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
-Mark Twain

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

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
-Burton Hills

"Happiness always looks small if u hold it in your hands But when u learn to share it, u will realize how big and precious it is Be happy always"
-Unknown

"The only way 2 multiply happiness is by dividing it"

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