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There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.
The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.