Happiness Quote and saying

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things
. ~Ernest Dimnet


One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb


Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy! ~Terri Guillemets


We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898


One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O’Neill


A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca


One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa


Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert


My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder


Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. ~Colette


Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. ~Robert Brault,


Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan


People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~Anton Chekhov


Happiness is an inside job. ~William Arthur Ward
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold


Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold


If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru


It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel


If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger


There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault,


If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring. ~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama


Eden is that old fashioned House
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away...
~Emily Dickinson


Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard


If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too. ~ 2007


Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky


Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ~Carl Sandburg


We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. ~Robert Brault,


Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863


Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Terri Guillemets


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison


Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson


There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo


Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. ~Paulo Coelho


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault,


In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? ~Leslie Caron


On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge


To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. ~Robert Brault, 

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