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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.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and
forms of government.
"If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good."
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation."
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I
still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the
same."
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you
have learned how to live."
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy."
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not
only to get outcyou must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing
errand."
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."
"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a
clever thing to say."
"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."
"Patience is the key to paradise."
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to
revere what is unknowable."
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
"Who says the eternal being does not exist?
Who says the sun has gone out?
Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight,
and says, I don't see anything."
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads
none of us by the same route.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
"Take away the complaint 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."Marcus Aurelius ---contributed by Lourdes Molina
Learn to smile, get the habit of it; learn to sing, make it also a habit; and you will be surprised how much brighter it makes the world, not only to others, but to yourself! The smile and the song lessen the burdens and light up the way. Anon.From The Value of Happiness, p. 71.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.---Coco Chanel contributed by Natalie Meier
"The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness."--Theodosia Garrison
"No man may indeed become wise before he has had his share of winters in this world's kingdom." -- "The Wanderer"
"Between stimulus and response is a space. In this space lies our freedom to choose our response. In these choices lie our growth and our happiness."
Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when you pursue it is always beyond your grasp, but, which, when you sit down may alight upon you. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Self-pity in its early stages is a snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.--- Maya Angelou--- submitted by Kathleen
Dreams and Aspirations
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. William Murray - climber of Mount Everest
What if you slept; and what if in your sleep you dreamed; and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower; and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Oh, what then?----Samuel Taylor Coleridge contributed by Kim
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -- Luciano de Crescenzo
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying: and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow maybe dying:
Carpe Diem
Seize the Day -----from Dead Poets Society, contributed by Graeme
I do not wish to be Everything to Everyone, But I do wish to be Something to Someone. -- Javan
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream at night, by the dusty recesses of their minds, awake to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of day are dangerous men - that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.--unknown
I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special! --David F. Sims
If you work hard on your job you will make a living. If you work hardon yourself you will make a fortune! -- Jim Rohn
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul. --Written by Flavia
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Written by Langston Hughes
"Do not rely completely on any other human beings. . . We meet all life's greatest test alone."
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. --- Antonio Porchia
"and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."--Anais Nin |
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