Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
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.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
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