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Tue 4 Nov, 2003 09:11 pm
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think
1. there probably can be no greater happiness than this. -- Kitaro Nishida
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for
us. -- Helen Keller
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word
happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is
far better to take things as they come along with patience and
equanimity. -- Carl Jung
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. -- Hugh Downs
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting
something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what
we do have. -- Fredrick Koeing
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the
blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they
are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -- Dale Carnegie
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something
you design for the present. -- Jim Rohn
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of
satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that
demanded our best. --Theodore I. Rubin
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because
thorns have roses. -- ZIGGY
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. -- A.
Nielsen
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -- Victor
Hugo
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a
particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its
form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a
child, must be allowed to grow up. -- Charles Langbridge Morgan
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar
Wilde
Happiness ... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of
creative effort. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by
saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home 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
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result
of strenuous discipline. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -- Mildred
Barthel
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman
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. -- Hugo
Black
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting
a few drops on yourself. -- James Van Der Zee
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham
Lincoln
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being
happy. -- Robert Anthony
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for. -- Allan K. Chamlers
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without
action. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. -- Burton Hills
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under
his feet. -- James Oppenheim
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant
pool. -- John Mason Good
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
-- Cynthia Nelms
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. -- Scottish
Proverb
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp ... But
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. -- Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. -- Samuel
Levenson
Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish;
therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-- Mary Baker Eddy
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just
because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. -- H.
Jackson Browne
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our
affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to
be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life. --
J.E. Buckrose
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
-- Henry Miller
The secret of happiness is something to do. -- John Burroughs
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. -- Lord Byron
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't
even remember leaving open. -- Rose Lane
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and
unhappiness - otherwise, how would you know when you're happy? -- Leslie
Caron
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world. -- Epicetus
Happiness requires problems. -- H.L.Hollingworth
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts:
therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no
notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep
choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we
belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that
nothing, not even death, can take God away from us. Joy is the
experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that
nothing -- sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or
even death -- can take that love away. -- Henri Nouwen
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be
happy. -- Ben Stein
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
-- Dough Horton
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that
handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face
it, friends make life a lot more fun. -- Charles R. Swindoll
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not
only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind
of peace work. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. -- Victor
Hugo
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a
punishment -- it is a result. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or
misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. --
Martha Washington
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them
all. -- Anonymous
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human
felicity. -- Samuel Johnson
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word
happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is
far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-- Carl Jung
Joy comes from using your potential. --Will Schultz
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy. -- Holly
Ketchel
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy
because we are contented. -- Walter Savage Landor
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting
and being content with what you get. -- Bernard Meltzer
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you
can love, and do what you will. -- Dan Millman
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is
happiness. -- George Orwell
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. -- John
W. Gardner
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. -- Kahlil
Gibran
Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking
what we have to do. -- Wilfred A. Peterson
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts.
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who
love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good
conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not
only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others. --
William Lyon Phelphs
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to
inspire. -- Duchess Prazlin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming
gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot
endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it
is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice
happiness for an intenser quality of life. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
-- John Stossel
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever
they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what
to complain about tomorrow. -- Adam Zimbler
This is really a good compilation on happiness.Kudos to Misti26
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Yes, heaven, I'm in heaven
(Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong)
"you never can tell how old fat people are" penny from teachers...
misti how long did it take u too write all that out? did it make u truly happy? didnt think so. u could have been out there saving the world!!.. or similar.. tumtitum.. byes
methinks some people take life waay 2 seriously
The key to happiness is not getting what you like, but liking what you get.
Clary wrote:The key to happiness is not getting what you like, but liking what you get.
I have several fountain pens. When I buy a new pen, I notice, after a few days, that the best pen was the one that I had used the last time before the purchase of the new pen.
Oh dear, Satt, you are setting yourself up for dissatisfaction, unhappiness and depression. I have a husband with the same temperament. He's in psychiatric hospital at the moment because he can't believe that today and tomorrow are more exciting and potentially fun than yesterday. Yesterday has become a golden age during which pens, life, and other trivia were the best ever.
Are you a Pisces by any chance?
Clary..
I am not depressed. When I buy a next new pen, the current new pen will be the best.
(I am a Virgo.)
Well, be warned...
Virgos are frugal and shrewd with financial matters, your pen-hoarding figures.
The pen I am using RIGHT NOW is wonderful. My NEXT new pen is the best.
Well, I love giving a gift, and if you received a gift of fountain pen from me, I can assure it was the best one, from my point of view.
(Clary, I was amazed, you are very keen about horoscope. It has been my impression that the Pisces seem to go well with my Virgo.)
"Dad always believed laughter was the best medicine, I guess that's why so many of us died of tuberculosis." - Robert Smigel
Ah, I asked if you were Pisces, Satt, because they tend to look backwards rather than forwards. I am a forward-looking Sagittarian but I have had some beautiful relationships with Virgos
We also love free gifts!
Scorpio here ................
How does a Scorpio see happiness?
I actually think there would be differences in how different signs see it - for a Sag, an open road, travelling light, but with enough money in the pocket for a good meal with wine is one of the happiest scenarios.
satt is and always has been clearly a Virgo. Pisces indeed...I would know, I'm a Virgo too, and I'm not stingy, I just have no money.
Now, is Clary up for a road trip and a bottle of wine? I'm wanted by the law and could use a vacation. You did say you have had some beautiful relationships with Virgos....
Oh, and happiness is a warm puppy. -Charles Schultz
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