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Quotations About Happiness and Joy
page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 These quotes are about living joyfully and passing on the joy to others.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment,
when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
And from the discontent of one man
The world's best progress springs.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
.One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Beauty, more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
.Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,
essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
.Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling
of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy. Make the most of yourself that is all there is to
you If you take care of the small things, the big things
take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying
closer attention to the little things. How we spend our days is of course how we spend
our lives. The greater part of happiness or misery depends
on our dispositions, not our circumstances. Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments. To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves Adopt the pace of nature. If there is to be any peace it will come through
being, not having. A smile is curve that sets everything straight. You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly
good present, by worrying about the future. The future you shall know when it has come; before
then forget it Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. |
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