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Quotes About Happiness

tener padres felices y relajados es el mayor regalo que podemos dar a nuestros hijos.
~ Gerald Newmark
Our long national nightmare is over.
~ Gerald R. Ford
These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in the current of grief that is our life now. I can't say that I ever feel what it felt like then, when I was happy. But sometimes something will touch the place where that feeling was, a touch as slight and swift as the brush of a moth's wing in the dark.
~ Geraldine Brooks
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
~ Geraldine Brooks
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
~ Christoph MartinWieland
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
~ William Shakespeare
The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
~ Bible
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
~ William Shakespeare
The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.
~ Alexander Pope
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
~ Learned Hand
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
~ Kahlil Gibran
A light heart lives long.
~ William Shakespeare
Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~ Joseph Addison
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
~ Ovid
Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
~ Anonymous
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.
~ Seneca
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
~ Dale Carnegie
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
~ Alfred A. Montapert
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
~ William Hazlitt
Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
~ Bo Lozoff