Being Happy Quotes - Page 15

• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Self, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Wisdom, Investing

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

  Angelina Jolie

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Fun

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Ignorance, Happy Life

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• Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

  Everett Ruess

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• I get way too much happiness from good food.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Happiness, Food, Joy

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 04, 2013.

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• All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

  Shantideva

  Happiness, Desire

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Worry

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• The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Happiness, Positive Life, Giving

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Laughter

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Depression, Grief

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, May

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• Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy, Integrity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.220, Penguin

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• What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

  Henny Youngman

  Money, Silly, Use

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Happiness, Happy, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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