Sunday 3 September 2017

Happiness

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. - Thich Nhat Hanh

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. - Robert A. Heinlein

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - Heraclitus

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. - Sophie Swetchine

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. - Andre Maurois

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. - Mary Stuart

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank

More on Happiness Here
The book The Pursuit of Happiness

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