Saturday, October 27, 2007

Happiness

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
-John Stuart Mill

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
-Arthur Rubinstein

"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same."
-Carlos Castaneda

"Don't worry. Be happy."
-Meher Babe

"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
-Henri Stendahl

"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Count Leo Tolstoy

"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
-Seneca

"Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
-Andre Gide

"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
-Woody Allen

"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin."
-Lord Byron

"Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person."
-Elvis Presley

"See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
-James Freeman Clarke


"Those who seek happiness, miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."
-Holbrook Jackson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
-Count Leo Tolstoy

"A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness."
-Bernard de Fontanelle

"Happiness is not the end of life: character is."
-Henry Ward Beecher

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

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