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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
“I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Charlie Chaplin
My happiest days are those in which I do good work.
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
George Santayana
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
Woody Allen
“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ”
Gloria Steinem
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K Chesterton
“And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.”
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.
Buddha
“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.”
“It is ridiculous to think that somebody else can make you happy or unhappy.”