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We can sometimes love what we do not understand  but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
— Anna Jameson
To serve thy generation  this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name  But he who loves his kind does  first or late  A work too great for fame.
— Mary Clemmer
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting  and of all relationships.
— Jodie Foster
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety  so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes  the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove  to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
— Freya Stark
Love  I find  is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves  though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
— Judith Viorst
Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go  and it makes the end so easy.
— Louisa May Alcott
Love  by its very nature  is unworldly  and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political  perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
— Hannah Arendt
I love  and the world is mine!
— Florence Earle Coates
When love is out of your life  you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going  you have such vitality to do things  big things  because love is goosing you all the time.
— Fanny Brice
A caress is better than a career.
— Elizabeth Marbury
I don't want to live-I want to love first  and live incidentally.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it  she only sleeps  with it alone  she lives.
— Ouida
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
— Marge Piercy
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
— Agnes Repplier
There is only one happiness in life  to love and be loved.
— George Sand
When you come right down to it  the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Where there is great love  there are always wishes.
— Willa Cather
The cure for all ills and wrongs  the cares  the sorrows and the crimes of humanity  all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
— Lydia M. Child
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
— Karen Sunde
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible-it cannot be seen or measured  yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment  and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
— Barbara De Angelis
Love is the only effective counter to death.
— Maureen Duffy
There are only two things that are absolute realities  love and knowledge  and you can't escape them.
— Olive Schreiner
There is nothing ridiculous in love.
— Olive Schreiner
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings  and yet be very respectable.
— Ntozake Shange
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get  simply to arm ourselves.
— Patty Duke
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford  as smart as Henry Kissinger  as noble as Ralph Nader  as funny as Woody Allen  and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen  as smart as Jimmy Conners  as funny as Ralph Nader  as athletic as Henry Kissinger  and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
— Judith Viorst
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
— Louise Erdrich
'Tis what I love determines how I love.
— George Eliot
Not only is there a right to be happy  there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
— John Sutherland Bonnell
There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
— Aristotle
What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.
— Bertolt Brecht
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
— Jane Rule
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Even the lowliest  provided he is whole  can be happy  and in his own . way  perfect.
— Johann von Goethe
Happiness  to some  is elation  to others it is mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm  as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
— Franz Kafka
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
— Holbrook Jackson
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ  they aim at the same end.
— Blaise Pascal
We all live with the objective of being happy  our lives are all different and yet the same.
— Anne Frank
The world is so full of a number of things  I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
— Lady Marguerite Blessington
Love is a great beautifier.
— Louisa May Alcott
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
— Rosalind Russell
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
— Jane Seymour
Real happiness is cheap enough  yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
— Hosea Ballou
False happiness renders men stern and proud  and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible  and that happiness is always shared.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
— Josh Billings
Mirth is better than fun  and happiness is better than mirth.
— William Blake
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
— Alexander Pope
False happiness is like false money  it passes for a long time as well as the true  and serves some ordinary occasions  but when it is brought to the touch  we find the lightness and alloy  and feel the loss.
— Alexander Pope
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
When I have been unhappy  I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds  when I am happy  a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy  but I that make it sweet.
— John Ruskin
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness  only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
— Benjamin Franklin
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are  by their very nature  highly uncertain  precarious  ephemeral and subject to chance.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes  a certain degree of courage  self-denial to a point  love of work  and  above all  a clear conscience.
— George Sand
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is want of self-reliance  it is infirmity of will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
— Merle Haggard
No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
— Garuda Purana
Happiness  happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone  and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
— Joseph Conrad
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
— Andre Maurois
To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
— Andre Gide
Life is a romantic business  but you have to make the romance.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Some pursue happiness  others create it.
— Anonymous
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself  and not upon other men  has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
— Plato
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power  so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy  and no one can stop him.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Happy is he that chastens himself.
— Anonymous
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that  you ain't learned nothing.
— Lorraine Hansbury
Like swimming  riding  writing or playing golf  happiness can be learned.
— Dr. Boris Sokoloff
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying  "Wow  this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness  let me know. I'm ambitious for that  too.
— Harrison Ford
Learn how to feel joy.
— Seneca
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you  a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work  and the ability to love others."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
— Johann von Goethe
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply  to enjoy simply  to think freely  to risk life  to be needed.
— Storm Jameson
Do not worry  eat three square meals a day  say your prayers  be courteous to your creditors  keep your digestion good  exercise  go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy  but  my friend  these I reckon will give you a good lift.
— Abraham Lincoln
Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live  not only longest  but happiest.
— George Matthew Allen
Build a little fence of trust Around today  Fill the space with loving work  And therein stay.
— Mary Frances Butts
This is wisdom: to love wine  beauty  and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.
— Theodore De Banville
The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence  to be always calm  always lucid  always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
— Cyril Connolly
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do  something to love and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
The best philosophy is to do one's duties  to take the world as it comes  submit respectfully to one's lot  and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it  whatever it is.
— Horace Walpole
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past  which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
— Andre Gide
From birth to age eighteen  a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five  she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five  she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on  she needs good cash.
— Sophie Tucker
To make a man happy  fill his hands with work  his heart with affection  his mind with purpose  his memory with useful knowledge  his future with hope  and his stomach with food.
— Frederick E. Crane
For me  happiness came from prayer to a kindly God  faith in a kindly God  love for my fellow man  and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living  but it was not there. I tried to find it in money  but it was not there  either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life  when I began to develop my limited ability  to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love  when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly  I began to feel the stimulating  warm glow of happiness.
— Edward Young
Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
— Theodor Reik
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us  but is always the result of a good conscience  good health  occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire  a little surplus to give you confidence  a little too much work each day  enthusiasm for your work  a substantial share of good health  a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.
— J. Kenfield Morley
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort  calmness against strain  quiet against turmoil  we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
— Josephine Rathbone
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice  ambition  envy  anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished  we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True happiness... arises  in the first place  from the enjoyment of one's self  and in the next  from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
May you have warmth in your igloo  oil in your lamp  and peace in your heart.
— Eskimo proverb
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health  out of debt  and has a clear conscience?
— Adam Smith
Let your boat of life be light  packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures  one or two friends worth the name  someone to love and to love you  a cat  a dog  enough to eat and enough to wear  and a little more than enough to drink  for thirst is a dangerous thing.
— Jerome K. Jerome
To be glad of life  because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars  to be satisfied with your possessions  but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them  to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness  and to fear nothing except cowardice  to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts  to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners  to think seldom of your enemies  often of your friends  and every day of Christ  and to spend as much time as you can  with body and with spirit  in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
— Henry Van Dyke
Order your soul  reduce your wants  live in charity  associate in Christian community  obey the laws  trust in Providence.
— Saint Augustine
Simplicity  clarity  singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
— Richard Halloway
To live content with small means  to seek elegance rather than luxury  and refinement rather than fashion  to be worthy  not respectable  and wealthy  not rich  to study hard  think quietly  talk gently  act frankly  to listen to the stars and birds  to babes and sages  with open heart  to bear on cheerfully  do all bravely  awaiting occasions  worry never  in a word to  like the spiritual  unbidden and unconscious  grow up through the common.
— William Ellery Channing
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity  Simplicity  Sympathy  and Serenity.
— Emily Post
Manifest plainness  Embrace simplicity  Reduce selfishness  Have few desires.
— Lao-Tzu
Fear less  hope more  eat less  chew more  whine less  breathe more  talk less  say more  love more  and all good things will be yours.
— Swedish proverb
To live and let live  without clamor for distinction or recognition  to wait on divine Love  to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living  and my human ideal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Do all the good you can  By all the means you can  In all the ways you can  In all the places you can  At all the times you can.
— Anonymous
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste  and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender  be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly  and listen to others  even the dull and ignorant  they too have their story. . . . Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love  for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years  gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline  be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars  you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you  no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God  whatever you conceive Him to be  and whatever your labours and aspirations  in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham  drudgery and broken dreams  it is still a beautiful world.
— Max Ehrmann
Accept the pain  cherish the joys  resolve the regrets  then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over  I'd do it all the same."
— Joan Mcintosh
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous  he is free from anxieties  wise  he is free from perplexities  bold  he is free from fear.
— Confucius
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
— Dr. Melba Colgrove
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
— Evelyn Underhill
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
Virtue  like a dowerless beauty  has more admirers than followers.
— Lady Marguerite Blessington
We can build upon foundations anywhere  if they are well and truly laid.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Though language forms the preacher  'Tis "good works" make the man.
— Eliza Cook
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them  but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
— Rosalia Castro
When you're in your nineties and looking back  it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
— Elizabeth Dole
For attractive lips  speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes  seek out the good in people. For a slim figure  share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair  let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise  walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
— Audrey Hepburn
What you become is what counts.
— Liz Smith
If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent  and so would always be able to have water in abundance  how fortunate he would consider himself  so too  when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside  thinking that his happiness lies outside him  finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
— Seren Kierkegaard
Happiness is not in our circumstances  but in ourselves. It is not something we see  like a rainbow  or feel  like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
— John B. Sheerin
Seek not outside yourself  heaven is within.
— Mary Lou Cook
If we have not peace within ourselves  it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life  from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly  a good inner life is difficult to achieve  especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
— W. L. Shirer
It's what you do that makes your soul  not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
— William Ralph Inge
I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
— Julia Child
I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once  and never again  it is there within you  and it will come as certainly as death.
— Isak Dinesen
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work  the day's honest decisions  the day's generous utterances  and the day's good deed.
— Clare Boothe Luce
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.
— Peace Pilgrim
I am convinced that we must train not only the head  but the heart and hand as well.
— Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Live virtuously  and you cannot die too soon  or live too long.
— Lady R. Russell
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
People see God every day  they just don't recognize Him.
— Pearl Bailey
We hear voices in solitude  we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life  we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
— Amelia Barr
Happiness is not a possession to be prized  it is a quality of thought  a state of mind.
— Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is a butterfly which  when pursued  is always beyond our grasp  but  if you will sit down quietly  may alight upon you.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
— Rose Wilder Lane
To seek after beauty as an end  is a wild goose chase  a will-o'-the-wisp  because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty  which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.
— Ada Bethune
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
— Chuang-tzu
This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea  that very thing  happiness  which I have been pursuing all my life  and have never yet overtaken.
— Joanna Baillie
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband  only another man would make me think that way.
— Lauren Bacall
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
A sure way to lose happiness  I found  is to want it at the expense of everything else.
— Bette Davis
Those who seek happiness miss it  and those who discuss it  lack it.
— Holbrook Jackson
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
— Lisa Alther
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
— Samuel Johnson
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
— Palmer Sondreal
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose  aiming at something outside self.
— Hugh Black
If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
— C. P. Snow
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
— William Feather
Seek not happiness too greedily  and be not fearful of unhappiness.
— Lao-Tzu
The man of pleasure  by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be  is often more miserable than most men.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
— John Berry
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
— Elton Trueblood
Everyone chases after happiness  not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
— Bertolt Brecht
Seek to do good  and you will find that happiness will run after you.
— James Freeman Clarke
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
— Robert J. McCracken
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
— Edith Wharton
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least  and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought  it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you  and not you overtake it.
— John Burroughs
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
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 no attention to it and go about your business  you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
— William Bennett
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
— Edith Wharton
Happiness in this world  when it comes  comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit  and it leads us on a wild-goose chase  and is never attained. Follow some other object  and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
— Viktor Frankl
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it  you will find it  as the old woman did her lost spectacles  safe on her nose all the time.
— Josh Billings
Happiness is not a goal  it is a byproduct.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
— Dr. Benjamin Spock
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
— Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not a horse  you cannot harness it.
— Chinese proverb
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
— Florence Ellinwood Allen
Conscience  as I understand it  is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right  regardless of personal ends  and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
— Margaret Collier Graham
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
— Lillian Hellman
The principles we live by  in business and in social life  are the most important part of happiness.
— Harry Harrison
If you aren't good at loving yourself  you will have a difficult time loving anyone  since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
— Barbara De Angelis
Happiness is when what you think  what you say  and what you do are in harmony.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A good message will always find a messenger.
— Amelia Barr
It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
— Catherine Cookson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark
Let how you live your life stand for something  no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
— Jodie Foster
Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
— Ovid
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
— Thomas Paine
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
— Ayn Rand
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Erasmus
Resolve to be thyself  and know that who finds himself  loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
There is only one history of any importance  and it is the history of what you once believed in  and the history of what you came to believe in.
— Kay Boyle
The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.
— Ruth Wolff
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
— Albert Camus
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
— Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not something you get  but something you do.
— Marcelene Cox
Happiness is action.
— David Thomas
I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
— Willa Cather
I want a busy life  a just mind  and a timely death.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
— Anonymous
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
— Grandma Moses
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something  to secure it in this world  we must do something.
— Charlotte P. Gilman
To fill the hour  and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you observe a really happy man  you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
— W. Beran Wolfe
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.
— August Strindberg
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
— Aristotle
We must be doing something to be happy.
— William Hazlitt
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
— Cyril Connolly
We must not seek happiness in peace  but in conflict.
— Paul Claudel
Happiness walks on busy feet.
— Kitte Turmell
Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.
— Philip Skelton
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.
— A. Edward Newton
The busiest man is the happiest man.
— Sir Theodore Martin
To be busy is man's only happiness.
— Mark Twain
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
— William Feather
Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.
— Hugh Walpole
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
— J. C. F. von Schiller
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes  but in liking what one has to do.
— Sir James M. Barrie
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper  but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
— David Hume
Life is not always what one wants it to be  but to make the best of it as it is  is the only way of being happy.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills  without being overcome by them.
— Juvenal
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty  then happiness comes of itself.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
Seek happiness for its own sake  and you will not find it  seek for duty  and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
— Tyron Edwards
True happiness  we are told  consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out  you must stay out. And to stay out  you must have some absorbing errand.
— Henry James
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
— Henry Ford
Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Without duty  life is soft and bone less.
— Joseph Joubert
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
— Amelia Barr
Happiness consists not in having much  but in being content with little.
— Lady Marguerite Blessington
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him  in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
— Leo Tolstoy
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow  too  but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris  a lark  a bluebird  or a dewy morning glory.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
— Charles Baudelaire
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little  soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile  a kind look  a heart-felt compliment  and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth  a book and a friend  and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
— Fernandez de Andrada
A happy life is made up of little things ... a gift sent  a letter written  a call made  a recommendation given  transportation provided  a cake made  a book lent  a check sent.
— Carol Holmes
Yes  there is a Nirvanah  it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture  and in putting your child to sleep  and in writing the last line of your poem.
— Kahlil Gibran
First health  then wealth  then pleasure  and do not owe anything to anybody.
— Catherine the Great
I know well that happiness is in little things.
— John Ruskin
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones  not the birthdays  the graduations  the weddings  not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
— Susan B. Anthony
I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
— Julia Child
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating  drinking  and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
— Sarah Bernhardt
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
— Samuel Johnson
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and  after these  the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
— Hugh Walpole
The little things are infinitely the most important.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money  as long as we get our hands on it?
— Ivy Baker Priest
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
— Elsa Schiapirelli
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet  simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day  than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Enjoy the little things  for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
— Robert Brault
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
— Anonymous
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
— Cher
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.
— Julia Child
In violent and chaotic times such as these  our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order  in making little havens of our homes.
— Susan Kaufman
Small kindnesses  small courtesies  small considerations  habitually practiced in our social intercourse  give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
— Mary Ann Kelty
For most of life  nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends  then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job  huge amounts of money  a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris  that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If  on the other hand  happiness depends on a good breakfast  flowers in the yard  a drink or a nap  then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
— Andy Rooney
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
— Madame De Maintenon
To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty  assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence  is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.
— Thomas Fitzosborne
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives  our interest  and our attention to something besides ourselves.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
Little deeds of kindness  little words of love  Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
— Julia A. Fletcher Carney
In about the same degree as you are helpful  you will be happy.
— Karl Reiland
Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.
— Mary Ann Allison
Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.
— Elizabeth Arden
Invest in the human soul. Who knows  it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
All the goodness  beauty  and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
— Georgette Leblanc
You cannot always have happiness  but you can always give happiness.
— Anonymous
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
— Margaret Carty
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Happiness is a by-product of helping others.
— Denny Miller
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
— Jean de la Bruyere
No man can live happily who regards himself alone  who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go  Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship  keep them till full-blown  You will find more happiness than you have ever known.
— Amy R. Raabe
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.
— Bertrand Russell
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
— Grenville Kleiser
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act  you have neglected much  and most of all yourself.
— A. Neilen
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others  but it also becomes richer and happier.
— Albert Schweitzer
Happiness ... consists in giving  and in serving others.
— Henry Drummond
Pleasure is a reciprocal  no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased  one must please.
— Lord Chesterfield
He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth  but he that hath mercy on the poor  happy is he.
— Bible
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
— Blaise Pascal
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
— Chinese proverb
When you dig another out of their troubles  you find a place to bury your own.
— Anonymous
Caring about others  running the risk of feeling  and leaving an impact on people  brings happiness.
— Rabbi Harold Kushner
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
— Vi Putnam
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
— Dick Gregory
Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14 600 human beings happy for a little time  at least.
— Charley Willey
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To be kind to all  to like many and love a few  to be needed and wanted by those we love  is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Seldom can the heart be lonely  If it seeks a lonelier still  Self-forgetting  seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
The older you get  the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
— Lionel Barrymore
There is no happiness in having or in getting  but only in giving.
— Henry Drummond
True happiness consists in making others happy.
— Hindu proverb
All who would win joy  must share it  happiness was born a twin.
— Lord Byron
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get  but we make a life by what we give.
— Norman MacEwan
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness  it has no taste.
— Charlotte Bronte
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray  nay  when it strikes on a kindred heart  like the converged light on a mirror  it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
— Jane Porter
The tourist may complain of other tourists  but he would be lost without them.
— Agnes Repplier
Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
— Spanish proverb
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
— English proverb
The human heart  at whatever age  opens only to the heart that opens in return.
— Maria Edgeworth
Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.
— Paul Flemming
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
When someone does something good  applaud! You will make two people happy.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
— Jane Porter
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
— Stuart Cloete
Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell  0 storms! Farewell.
— Louise Imogen Guiney
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
1 am happy and content because I think I am.
— Alain-Rene Lesage
All happiness is in the mind.
— Anonymous
Happiness is not a matter of events  it depends upon the tides of the mind.
— Alice Meynell
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
— Cicero
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
— Barbara Pletcher
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
— William Lyon Phelps
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking  just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
— Paul Bourget
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
— Thomas Fuller
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions  and not our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
— Joseph Joubert
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
— Bernard de Fontenelle
It isn't our position  but our disposition  that makes us happy.
— Anonymous
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I went back to being an amateur  in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work  routine sets in  and that's the death of work and life.
— Ada Bethune
The high prize of life  the crowning fortune of man  is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come  but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well  and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
— John D. Rockefeller III
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
— Francis Bacon
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
The happy people are those who are producing something.
— William Ralph Inge
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
To find out what one is fitted to do  and to secure an opportunity to do it  is the key to happiness.
— John Dewey
If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness  I would say "Work a little harder  Work a little longer  Work!"
— Frederick H. Ecker
To make a man happy  fill his hands with work.
— Frederick E. Crane
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
— Sir Theodore Martin
Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat  weariness  self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces  but lurking in cornfields and factories  and hovering over littered desks.
— David Grayson
There is work that is work and there is play that is play  there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
— Gelett Burgess
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
— Robert Burton
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
— Leo C. Rosten
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed  to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
— Samuel Johnson
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run  and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
— Bertrand Russell
Blessed is he who has found his work  let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work  a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor  the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
— Thomas Carlyle
Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
— E. Merrill Root
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
— Elbert Hubbard
Few persons realize how much of their happiness  such as it is  is dependent upon their work.
— John Burroughs
Joy is the will which labours  which overcomes obstacles  which knows triumph.
— William Butler Yeats
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
— Elbert Hubbard
When men are rightly occupied  their amusement grows out of their work  as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
— John Ruskin
Parents  however old they and we may grow to be  serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around  we can avoid the fact of our mortality  we can still be innocent children.
— Jane Howard
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He is happiest  be he king or peasant  who finds peace in his home.
— Johann von Goethe
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room  and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person  born on the hottest day of the year  conceived on a Christmas Eve  made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
— Anna Quindlen
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
— Anne Ridler
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
— Jean Illsley Clarke
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
— Robert J. Havighurst
Where thou art  that is home.
— Emily Dickinson
Parenting  at its best  comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic  involuntary  unconditional love.
— Sally James
If this world affords true happiness  it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years  where the necessities of life come without severe strain  where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
— A. Edward Newton
There are four things a child needs: plenty of love  nourishing food  regular sleep  and lots of soap and water.
— Ivy Baker Priest
Family jokes  though rightly cursed by strangers  are the bond that keeps most families alive.
— Stella Benson