Happiness(Related Subjects: Laughter)

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. Al Batt, in National Enquirer Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France (1844 - 1924) The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825 Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677) If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! Bob Newhart (1929 - ) The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980) Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003 Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others. David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992 All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. Doris Lessing Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964) A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns (1896 - 1996) To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838 If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermann Fichte I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger (1919 - ) The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Jean Houston Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry, Flight of White Crows True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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 (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911 Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. Josh Billings (1818 - 1885) It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930) Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC) I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998 I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! Louise Bogan Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) Very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002 When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) No man is happy who does not think himself so. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. Roy M. Goodman Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. The laws of Manu Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862 The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper (1731 - 1800)