Happiness Quotes - Page 24

• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Life, Happy, Calling

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• Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

  Robert Breault

  Remember

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Sad, Happy

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• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

  Khalil Gibran

  Famous Inspirational, Giving, Perfect

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.16, Jaico Publishing House

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• Happiness is wanting what you have.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Happy, Desire, Wish

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Graduation, Hope, Laughter

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• Forgiveness is the best revenge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Revenge, Buddhism, Best Revenge

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• True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Using Your Talents, Inner Peace

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• The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

  Colley Cibber

  Unhappy, Hours, Whole

  Colley Cibber (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83

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• 'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Perseverance, Attitude

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• The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

  Robert Breault

  Burden Of Proof, Secret, Finding Happiness

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

  Robert Breault

  Experts, Might, Has Beens

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• To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Laughter, Long

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• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

  John Dewey

  Laughter, Unique, Joy

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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• I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Laughter, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  Albert Camus

  Happy, Laughter, Concern For Others

  "The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Happy, Laughing, Dying

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• 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

  Poverty, Bread, Obliged

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.207

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• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

  Jane Austen

  Deserve

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• Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

  James Hillman

  Being Happy, Thinking, Screw Ups

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Positive, Happy, Depression

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