Quotations on Happiness
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
-Elbert Hubbard
Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends upon what you think.
-Dale Carnegie
Be simple.
-Alfred E. Smith
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
-John W. Gardner
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
-Benjamin Franklin
Happiness seems to be shared.
-Jean Racine
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
-Edith Wharton
When a shower brings a rainbow---we hardly remember getting wet.
-Anonymous
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
-Chuang-tzu
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
-Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
-Oscar Levant
Don't worry. Be happy.
-Bobby McFerrin
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
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-Rita Mae Brown
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
-Benjamin Franklin

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