Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Quotes About Happiness

"That is happiness - to be dissolved into something complete
and great."
- Willa Cather
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"The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings,
the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more
we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become."
- Ezra Taft Benson
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"If I feel depressed, I go to work. Work is always an antidote to
depression."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Happiness is the best medicine.

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Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other
things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably
to think very deeply about them.
- Peter Cook
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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.
- Charles Wiley
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When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it,
you will find you dance with everything.
- Emanuel
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Open your arms and welcome the joy of today!

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- E E. Cummings
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Don't waste a minute being unhappy. If one window closes - run
to the next window - or break down a door.

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True happiness arises in the first place from enjoyment of oneself.
- Joseph Addition
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The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller

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To be happy, do not add to your possessions, but subtract from
your desires.

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Live with your whole being all the days of your life. Your reward will
be true happiness.
- Rebecca Thomas Shane
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with
a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Joseph Addison
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To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating
happiness.
- Malcolm Forbes
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do,
but in liking what one has to do.
- James Barrie
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Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.
- Lucy Mand Montgomery
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Cultivate caring and generosity. Happiness is the natural state of
a loving heart.

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The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and
love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty.
It is the real joy of living.
- Walter Rauschbusch
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Perceive and rejoice that life is abundant, that beauty and goodness
are amply available . . . that your happiness is in your hands.
- Paul Hodges
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To love others makes us happy.

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Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a
heart full of love.

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