1:Quotes of Happiness

1-The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt, in National Enquirer



2-All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart


3-A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I


4-Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)


5-The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt, in National Enquirer


6-Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)


7-The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)


8-A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)


9-Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764


10-The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825


11-Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)


12-Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)


13-Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)


14-Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)


15-If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)


16-All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart (1929 - )


17-The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)


18-Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)


19-This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003


20-Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992

21-All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris Lessing


22-Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)

23-A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903),

24-Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)


25-To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)


26-Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

27-Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838


28-If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte


29-I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger (1919 - )


30-The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

31-At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston



32-Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)



33-The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry, Flight of White Crows



34-Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)



35-Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)



36-To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)



37-I’ve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
Laura Moncur, Merriton, 06-04-08


38-One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown


39-It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

2:Quotes of Wisdom

1-Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

2-Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Ghandi

3-Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare


4-All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle


5-I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein


6-Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
Confucius


7-God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare



8-The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi


9-Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle


10-Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein


11-I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare


12-When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius


13-An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin


14-The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confusion


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