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Sagt av |
| Ack! Jeppe! Paradisets bostad var endast kortvarig, och din lycka fick ett hastigt slut. | Ludvig Holberg |
| Allt du behöver för att bli lycklig är en bra pistol, en bra häst och en bra fru. | Daniel Boone (1734-1820) |
| Att vänta på glädjen är också en glädje. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) |
| Bland all lycka som vi kan uppleva, är den stösta att upptäcka våra egna inneboende möjligheter, för det vi upptäcker, är något omistligt, något vi själva kan förvalta och inte ska tacka andra för. | Bente Clod |
| Bäst av all glädje är glädjen för rakt ingenting, inte för något du kan eller vill, glädje för inget och glädje för allt, glädje för att du finns till | Axel Juel |
| De bästa åren i ditt liv är de då du bestämt att dina problem är dina egna. Du skyller dem inte på din mamma, miljön eller presidenten och du inser att du har kontrollen över ditt eget öde. | Albert Ellis |
| De bästa åren i ditt liv är dom när du bestämt att dina problem är dina egna. Du skyller dem inte på din mamma, ekologin eller presidenten och du inser att du har kontrollen över ditt öde. | Albert Ellis |
| Delad glädje är dubbel glädje. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Delad glädje är dubbel glädje; delad sorg är halverad sorg. | Swedish Proverb |
| Den ena halvan av världen förstår inte den andra halvans glädjeämnen | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Den högsta glädjen ligger så nära smärtan att den som smärtan har sina tårar. | Alexandre Dumas d.y. (1824-1895) |
| Den som intet har att glädjas över, jagar efter förströelser. | Johann Arndt (1555-1621) |
| Det finns bara en lycka i detta livet, att älska och att bli älskad. | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| Det finns bara en väg till glädje och det är att sluta bekymra sig över det man inte kan påverka. | Epiktetos (50-140) |
| Det finns bara en äkta glädje i livet, och det är skaparglädjen. | Frederick Delius (1862-1934) |
| Det finns i livet en glädje / som aldrig vänds till leda / det att man gör en annan glad / det är den enda glädjen. | Arnulf Øverland |
| Det glada hjärtat lever längst. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Det kan inte bli nån lycka om sakerna vi tror på skiljer sig ifrån sakerna vi gör. | Freya Stark (1893-1993) |
| Det är glädjen som upphöjer sinnena | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Det är inte lätt att finna lyckan i oss själva, men det är omöjligt att finna den någon annanstans. | Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) |
| Det är inte nödvändigt att vara rik och berömd för att vara lycklig. Det räcker med att vara rik. | Alan Alda (1936-) |
| Du kommer aldrig bli lycklig om du hela tiden söker efter vad lycka är. Du kommer aldrig leva om du letar efter meningen med livet. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| En glad och munter ande sprider glädje överallt. | Ukjent |
| Ensam glädje är bara halv glädje. Ensam sorg är dubbel sorg. | Grete Heltberg |
| Framgång är inte nyckeln till lycka, lycka är nyckeln till framgång. Om du älskar vad du gör så kommer du bli framgångsrik. | Herman Cain |
| Frisk och glad, som huggormsyngel i morgonsol. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Följ alltid din instinkt när det gäller att glädja andra. | Hanna Winsnes (1789-1872) |
| För att bli lycklig med en man måste du förstå honom mycket och älska honom lite. För att bli lycklig med en kvinna måste du älska henne mycket och inte försöka förstå henne alls. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| För att bli väldigt lycklig så måste du kunna känna smärta och olycka - hur annars vet du när du är lycklig? | Leslie Caron (1931-) |
| Gl�djen �r h�lsans st�d och sjukdomens motgift. (Ett skratt f�rl�nger livet) | Henry MacKenzie |
| Gläd dig med mig! Det är så sorgligt att glädja sig ensam! | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) |
| Glädje finner man sällan där man letar efter den. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Glädje föder glädje. | Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) |
| Glädje är inte roligt | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Glädjen är som ett ljus - tänder du det för andra, faller skenet tillbaka på dig själv. | Carit Etlar |
| Hellre många glädjeämnen, än för mycket av ett | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Hemligheten till lycka är att beundra men inte vilja ha. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| Ingen känsla är så full av illusioner som glädjen. | Jacques-Benigne Bossuet |
| Ingen man är lycklig. Han är, i bästa fall, tursam. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Jag tar alltid ut glädjen i förskott annars blir det aldrig nåt av den. | Aksel Sandemose (1899-1965) |
| Jag tar alltid ut glädjen i förskott, annars blir det aldrig något av den. | Aksel Sandemose (1899-1965) |
| Jag är lycklig för jag hänger inte upp mig på småsaker. | Nils Kjær |
| Jakten på lyckan är en riktigt fånig fras: om du jagar lyckan kommer du aldrig att finna den. | Carrie P. Snow |
| Kan man vara glad för lite har man mycket att vara glad för. | Ukjent |
| Kom ihåg att de lyckligaste människorna är inte de som får mer, det är de som ger mer. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| Livet är fullt av glädje. Den ena slår ihjäl den andra . | Nils-Fredrik Nielsen (1945-) |
| Lycka beror inte på vem du är eller vad du har: det beror endast på vad du tänker. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Lycka berusar. | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Lycka är att inse att ingenting är för viktigt. | Antonio Gala (1930-) |
| Lycka är en biprodukt av ett försök att göra nån annan lycklig. | Gretta Brooker Palmer |
| Lycka är en resa, inte en plats. | Ben Sweetland |
| Lycka är ett val som kräver ansträngning ibland. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| Lycka är inte ett av förnuftets ideal, utan ett av fantasin. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Lär dig njuta av varje minut av ditt liv. Var lycklig nu. Vänta inte på någonting utanför dig själv som ska göra dig lycklig i framtiden. Tänk hur viktig tiden du har är, använd den, om det så är i jobbet eller med din familj. | Earl Nightingale |
| Man har inte roligare än man gör sig | Norsk Ordtak |
| Man ska aldrig glädja sig förrän dagen efter. | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| Nej,glädjen, den måste man vara två om | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| När en människa möter sin skapare måste han också göra räkning för all den glädje i livet som han inte utnyttjade. | Talmud (400-) |
| När jag är glad känner jag det i knäna. Det pirrar liksom bakom knäskålarna. | Iben Sandemose (1950-) |
| Om du vill ha lyckan, förse andra med den då. | Frank Tyger |
| Om du vill vara lycklig så bli det. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Om vi bara ville bli lyckliga så vore det lätt: men vi vill vara lyckligare än andra människor och det är nästan alltid svårt för vi tänker att de är lyckligare än de verkligen är. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Pengar kan inte köpa lycka. | Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945-) |
| Sorg kan man till nöds bära ensam - glädje ska man vara två om. | Victor de Kowa (1904-) |
| Varför är folk så olyckliga? De väntar på sin lycka från andra, de skulle glädja andra istället, så blev de själva glada. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Varje glädjens ögonblick är en gåva från gudarna. | Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771) |
| Verklig glädje är en mycket allvarlig sak. | Lucius Annæus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65 f.Kr.) |
| Vetskapen om vad som är möjligt är början på lycka. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Vänta inte på att andra ska göra dig lycklig. All lycka måste du ge dig själv. | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| Världen vore lyckligare om män hade samma kapacitet till att vara tysta som dom har till att prata. | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Även glädje tröttar i längden | Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Lad være med at vente på, at andre mennesker bliver glade på dine vegne. Alle glæder, du får, må du først skabe selv. | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| Glæde afhænger af os selv. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Glæden er som et lys - tænder du det for andre, falder dets skin tilbage på dig selv. | Carit Etlar |
| Glæden bør være sjælens grundstemning. | D.G. Monrad |
| Selvbedrag er den største af alle glæder. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Så længe der har været mennesket til, har mennesket glædet sig for lidt: Dette alene er vor arvesynd. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Det er en sand glæde i livet at blive brugt til et formål, som du selv synes er stort | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Viden om det mulige er begyndelsen til glæde. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Han har et veludviklet instinkt for at være ulykkelig. | Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) |
| Spørg dig selv, om du er lykkelig - og du holder op med at være det | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| De fleste ville have meget at glæde sig over, hvis de bare havde tid. | Karl Kristian Steincke (1880-1963) |
| Man skal ikke være så ked af en fiasko, for den glæder en masse mennesker! | Liv Ullmann (1939-) |
| Alt, hvad der er dejligt, er enten umoralsk, eller også feder det | Liva Weel |
| At frydes og glædes er karakteristisk og naturligt for dyden, men at vredes er under dens værdighed. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Glæden over en god gerning er klar og strålende, men vreden over en andens ugerning er skummel og snæversindet | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Uskyldige glæder gør sjælen afslappet og behersket | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Glæde er længslen efter gentagelse. | Milan Kundera (1929-) |
| Glæde synes lavet til at blive delt. | Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) |
| Når en glad person træder ind i rummet, føles det, som om endnu et lys er blevet tændt. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Glæde, som kun kan opnås ved urimelig eller upassende omkostninger må altid ende i smerte; og glæde, som må nydes på bekostning af en andens smerte, kan aldrig blive af en art, som et redeligt sind helt kan fryde sig ved | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Som den glade søger glæden, deltager i den, omend det, der glæder ham nærmest, er den glæde, der bor i ham selv, således søger den sørgende sorgen | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Når du springer af glæde, pas på, at ingen flytter jorden under dine fødder. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| I glædestider ønsker vi alle en have, vi kunne logre med. | Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) |
| En god latter er solskine i et hus. | William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) |
| Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. | Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) |
| But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now. | Amy Smart (1976-) |
| When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. | Anna Pavlova (1882-1931) |
| The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. | Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) |
| I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse | Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) |
| Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. | Charles Du Bos |
| Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. | Charles Gow |
| I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight. | Christy Turlington (1969-) |
| Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. | Chuang Tzu |
| Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being. | Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) |
| Happy trails to you, until we meet again. | Dale Evans Rogers |
| Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind | Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) |
| In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing? | David Mamet (1947-) |
| Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness. | Donna A. Favors |
| Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy | Eddie Barclay (1921-) |
| My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find that it excels all other bliss that earth affords or grows by kind | Edward Dyer |
| The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie | Edward Jenner (1749-1823) |
| The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. | Eleanora Duse (1858-1924) |
| There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. | Ernie Banks (1931-) |
| Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. | Eskimo Proverb |
| You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. | Ethan Embry (1978-) |
| All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it | Eugene Field (1850-1895) |
| We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. | Frederick Keonig |
| Happiness is a positive cash flow. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. | Gary Larson (1950-) |
| I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned. | Gwyn Thomas (1914-1981) |
| Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the serving | Harry Marsh |
| Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. | Helen Gurley Brown (1922-) |
| Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. | Hugh Downs (1921-) |
| A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. | Hugh Sidey (1927-) |
| It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. | Hugo Black (1886-1971) |
| Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. | J. Donald Walters |
| The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. | J. Donald Walters |
| Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. | J. Donald Walters |
| I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect. | J. Michael Straczynski (1954-) |
| When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. | James Brown (1928-) |
| The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. | James Oppenheim |
| Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom? | Jeanette Winterson (1959-) |
| "To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special." | Jim Valvano (1946-1993) |
| He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. | John Cheever (1912-1982) |
| All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. | John Gunther (1901-1970) |
| So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. | John Sutherland Bonnell |
| The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted | Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) |
| Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. | Joseph Barbara (1966-) |
| Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) |
| Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night | Joyce Grenfell (1910-) |
| Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that. | Judith Crist (1922-) |
| Happiness is the time when you're chasing happiness. | Kino Makoto |
| You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. | Lavetta Sue Wegman |
| A well-spent day brings happy sleep | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach | Lyn Yutang (1895-1976) |
| Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1911-) |
| The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be | Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) |
| Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling | Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling. | Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him | Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) |
| We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does | Mary Gordon (1949-) |
| 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. | Queen of Scots Mary Stuart (1542-1587) |
| The beginning is always today. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. | Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) |
| Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. | Melba Colgrove |
| Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response | Mildred Barthel |
| Happy is he who can give himself up. | Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) |
| Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it | Ninon de L'Enclos |
| Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. | Norman Lear (1922-) |
| Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | Norman MacEwan |
| Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. | Norm Papernick |
| There is no time like the pleasant. | Oliver Herford (1863-1935) |
| Happiness is never stopping to think if you are | Palmer Sondreal |
| My ambition is to be happy. | Penelope Cruz (1974-) |
| Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness | Ray L. Wilbur |
| Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. | Richard Holloway |
| Joy is not in things; it is in us | Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
| Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance | Robert Blair (1699-1746) |
| A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion | Robert Chapman |
| The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make | Robert E Sherwood |
| My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. | Robert Grudin |
| It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. | Robert Herrick (1868-) |
| Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. | Robert Lynd (1879-1949) |
| Joy is increased by spreading it to others | Robert Murray McCheyne |
| Sorrows remembered sweeten present joys | Robert Pollock (1930-) |
| It will take time for us all to understand what has happened to us, but it is a joy to be surrounded by such happiness. | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. | Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885) |
| Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic | Rosalind Russell (1908-1976) |
| Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. | Rose Lane |
| In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.' | Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) |
| I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy | Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) |
| A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned. | Siddha Nagarjuna |
| What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. | Storm Jameson (1891-) |
| Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise. | Susanne Curchod Necker |
| Happiness is a direction, not a place. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. | Theodore I. Rubin |
| The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself | Theodore Reik |
| Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister | Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) |
| The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking | Vincent McNabb |
| What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them | Vincent McNabb |
| Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God. | White Eagle |
| Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. | William R. Alger (1822-1905) |
| Joy comes from using your potential. | Will Schultz (1902-1998) |
| To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from notloving. 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 (1935-) |
| Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992) |
| Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind | Alice Meynell |
| The best things in life are free | African-American Proverb |
| Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. | Andrew Young (1932-) |
| I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. | Ann Morrow Lindbergh |
| True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with | Artemus Ward (1834-1867) |
| Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye | Austin O'Malley |
| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. | Babe Ruth (1895-1948) |
| Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. | Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) |
| All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled | Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) |
| The only joy in the world is to begin | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can be happy in this world | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. | Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) |
| To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something | Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) |
| We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness… | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. | David Gayson |
| Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. | Deepak Chopra (1947-) |
| To know nothing is the happiest life | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. | Doug Larson |
| When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses | Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928-) |
| They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods | Edith Wharton (1862-1937) |
| The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. | Eudora Welty (1909-2001) |
| Happiness hates the timid! So does science! | Eugene O'Neill |
| If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. | Evita Peron (1919-1952) |
| On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror | Frank Tyger |
| You can't be envious and happy at the same time | Frank Tyger |
| Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| 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 Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) |
| Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. | George F. Burns (1896-1996) |
| Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Happiness lies, first of all, in health. | George William Curtis (1824-1892) |
| Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. | Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) |
| Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. | J. Donald Walters |
| No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so s | Jewel Kilcher (1974-) |
| Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys | Jewish Proverb |
| Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. | Joanna Field |
| Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. | Johnny Carson (1925-2005) |
| Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice | John Calvin (1509-1564) |
| Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. | John Mason Brown (1900-1969) |
| Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low | Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) |
| Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. | Joseph Roux (1834-1905) |
| I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it. | Josh Hartnett (1978-) |
| There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. | Leo Rosten (1908-1997) |
| Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do | Lyn Yutang (1895-1976) |
| In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. | Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) |
| Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| We possess only the happiness we are able to understand | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| Happiness is the natural flower of duty. | Phillip Brooks |
| Happiness seems made to be shared. | Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) |
| Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge | Robert Lynd (1879-1949) |
| Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket | Robert Orben (1927-) |
| Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling. | Roman Polanski (1933-) |
| The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. | Sam Levenson (1911-1980) |
| Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates | Sarah McLachlan (1968-) |
| Everywhere you go, take a smile with you. | Sasha Azevedo |
| Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. | Spike Milligan (1918-2002) |
| Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. | Tryon Edwards |
| I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. | Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) |
| Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. | Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues (1715-1747) |
| The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. | Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) |
| I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
| Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Anything you're good at contributes to happiness | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. | Alexander Solzenitsyn |
| "To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special." | Jim Valvano (1946-1993) |
| The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. | Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) |
| Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. | Queen of Scots Mary Stuart (1542-1587) |
| 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. | Queen of Scots Mary Stuart (1542-1587) |
| There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy. | Chinese Proverbs |
| He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. | Hugh Downs (1921-) |
| Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. | Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) |
| Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true | Helen Gurley Brown (1922-) |
| Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. | Helen Gurley Brown (1922-) |
| Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever | Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
| Joy is not in things; it is in us | Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
| Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. | Melba Colgrove |
| Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. | Melba Colgrove |
| I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. | Ann Morrow Lindbergh |
| Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. | John Cheever (1912-1982) |
| It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic | Rosalind Russell (1908-1976) |
| Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| It's not peace I want, not mere contentment. It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. | Abdul Kalam (1931-) |
| The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. | Alan Watts (1915-1973) |
| When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now. | Amy Smart (1976-) |
| If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. | Andrew Young (1932-) |
| There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. | Anthony de Mello |
| Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer | Anthony Robbins (1960-) |
| Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. | Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) |
| I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. | Babe Ruth (1895-1948) |
| Happiness is a virtue, not its reward | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of 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 (1706-1790) |
| With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a doing | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. | Bhagavad Gita |
| And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds | Bible |
| Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding | Bible |
| Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. | Brooke Shields (1965-) |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring | Chinese Proverbs |
| He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) |
| I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers/ And laid entwined together in a bed of clover/ Left there to sleep/ Left there to dream of happiness. | Conor Oberst |
| We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| The purpose of our lives is to be happy. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind | Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) |
| The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame. | David E. Bresler |
| Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy— because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. | Donald Marquis (1878-1937) |
| When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses | Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928-) |
| I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old--many, many people do not have that privilege.' | Earl Warren (1891-1974) |
| Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Happiness is a habit - cultivate it. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| All happiness is in the mind | English Proverb |
| The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully | Epicurus |
| No one has a right to happiness | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be! | Francis Thompson (1859-1907) |
| The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the enjoyment of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Who wants to be happy all his days long Lets the world’s troubles to itself belong. | Friedrich Rückert |
| Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. | Gary Larson (1950-) |
| A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. | George F. Burns (1896-1996) |
| There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| 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 accepte | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike | German Proverb |
| Behold, for deep within your eyes, no man has felt the rapture of your warmth… but I only. | Gillis Triplett |
| And let it be said that love is like a river that flows deep into the heart of the soul. For in every man and woman true love should be the ultimate goal. | Gillis Triplett |
| Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking place, so many inventions have been made. Things now go faster. In olden times things were not so rushed. I think people were more content, more satisfied with life than they are today. You don’t hear nearly as much laughter and shouting as you did in my day, and what was fun for us wouldn’t be fun now.... In this age I don’t think people are as happy, they are worried. They’re too anxious to get ahead of their neighbors, they are striving and striving to get something better. I do think in a way that they have too much now. We did with much less. | Grandma Moses (1860-) |
| Happiness is the exercise of one's vital abilities along lines of excellence in a life that affords them scope | Greek proverb |
| Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. | Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) |
| To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. | H. Schachtel |
| Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy [the ephemera replying to the oak tree]. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| The object of living is work, experience, happiness | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Happiness is not the end of life, character is | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Happiness is good health and a bad memory. | Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) |
| Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. | J. Donald Walters |
| Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. | J. Donald Walters |
| Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment. | Jack Bruce (1943-) |
| If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity. | James Wilcox |
| One is only happy before he is happy | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent"; my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. | Jim Rohn |
| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. | John Burroughs (1837-1921) |
| To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. | John Lubbock |
| Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first | John Tillotson |
| True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. | Johnny Carson (1925-2005) |
| Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night | Joyce Grenfell (1910-) |
| Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Happiness can be achieved once we know all we can and accept all we can't. | Kate Miller |
| To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. | Kathleen Tierney |
| It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) |
| And so today, my world it smiles,Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,Thanks to you it will be done,For you to me are the only one. | Led Zeppelin |
| Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. | Lydia Maria Francis Child |
| The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| "So many people are waiting for their happiness to come. It's not here yet, but they are waiting. It's like standing in a line waiting for your bus. "One day," people say, "my ship will come. One day, I'll make it. One day, I'll be happy." Ships come and go, and they wait for theirs. They think about jumping on other people's ships. They think everything. Yet, incredibly enough, there has always been someone who has pointed out the simple fact that what we are looking for is inside. " | Maharaji (1957-) |
| Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him | Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) |
| Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Happiness is the longing for repetition. | Milan Kundera (1929-) |
| Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response | Mildred Barthel |
| Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasures most dear. | Orson Scott Card (1951-) |
| Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| Never mind your happiness; do your duty. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Happy is the house that shelters a friend | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Sprinkle joy. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. | Ralph Waldo Trine |
| Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. | Richard L. Evans |
| Happiness is no laughing matter | Richard Whately (1787-1863) |
| It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. | Robert Herrick (1868-) |
| Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it. | Robert J. McCracken |
| The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| To forget oneself is to be happy. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. | Robert Muller |
| Saying that positive thinking usually doesn’t work is such heresy that I may be unceremoniously drummed out of the personal development field. And, it is mostly true. | Robert White |
| It's never too late to have a happy childhood. | Robert White |
| If happiness is the only prize we seek in life, then we will be guaranteed to spend a good part of our lives deep in disappointment, focused on a very small prize indeed. | Robert White |
| It will take time for us all to understand what has happened to us, but it is a joy to be surrounded by such happiness. | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is any such thing as complete happiness. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything you need and everything you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. | Rosa Parks (1913-2005) |
| A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to. | Russell Baker (1925-) |
| Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it | Russian Proverb |
| Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Happy is he who causes a scandal | Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) |
| I missed you...and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing? | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
| Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. | Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) |
| Smiles give others hope, joy and strength. Don't forget to use yours today. | Sasha Azevedo |
| When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different. | Stacey Charter |
| To describe happiness is to diminish it. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually | Stephen R. Covey |
| Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it | Sydney Smith (1771-) |
| The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity; the first day of our Jubilee is death | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as steadfastly believe | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, ev | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them | Vincent McNabb |
| In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy. | William P. King (1798-1837) |
| The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| I were but little happy, if I could say how much | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now. | Willie Nelson (1933-) |
| I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
| Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory. | Zig Ziglar |
| Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. | Zig Ziglar |
| Å drepe gleden er lystmord. | Ruben |
| Deiligst av alle gleder, er gleden for slett ingenting. | Axel Juel |
| Dejligst af alle glæder er glæden for slet ingenting, ikke for noget du kan eller vil, glæden for intet og glæden for alt, glæden fordi du er til. | Axel Juel |
| Delt glede er dobbelt glede, og delt sorg er halv sorg | John Bradford |
| Den gleden som ikke visner, er den som har sin rot i offer. | John Bradford |
| Den logiske tankerekke hører til menneskenes største gleder. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Den som kjøper alt en ser, den får gråte når andre ler. | Ordtak |
| Den som søker glede uten sorg, mister gleden. | Jürgen Moltmann |
| Den største gleden en kan ha er å gjøre andre gla. | Arnulf Øverland |
| Det at du gleder en annen, det er den eneste glede. | Arnulf Øverland |
| Det er ens eget indre, som er sorgens eller gledens kilde. | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Det er ingen liten synd å stjele gleden fra et menneske. | Einar Edwin |
| Det gode skal man hugge inn i fjellet, det onde skal man skrive i sneen. | Ordtak |
| En av livets største gleder er å være litt syk. | Harold Nicolson |
| For smerten, den lever på alles munn i lyset, så alle kan se den. Men først på tilværelsens Stillehavsbunn vil sinnet bli dypt nok for gleden. | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Gleda gløymest fyr du trur, men sorgene sitja lenge. | Ivar Aasen (1813-1896) |
| Hver glædesstund du fik på jord betales må med sorg. | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| Hver gledesstund du fikk på jord, betales må med sorg. | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| Hvorfor er folk uglade? De går og venter seg med glede fra andre. De skulle selv glede andre, så ble de glade. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Ingen glede er varig uten at den deles med vår neste. | Max Tau (1896-1976) |
| Klag ikke under stjernene over mangel på lyspunkter i ditt liv. | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Kvifor er folk uglade? Dei går og ventar seg glede frå andre. Dei skulle sjølv glede andre, så ville dei bli glade. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Mange mennesker har behov for lett underholdning. Jeg har ondt av dem; de vet ikke hva glede er. Livet har bedratt dem ved å nekte dem alvor. Glede er en stor følelse, og den er meget alvorlig. | Arnulf Øverland |
| Nøkkelen til dyp og varig livsglede er et diskret lite ord som mange ikke får øye på, det heter fortrolighet. Jeg vil ha et fortrolig forhold til meg selv, til min Gud og til minst ett annet menneske. | Karsten Isachsen |
| Penger gjør ingen glad, men det er bedre å gråte i en Jaguar enn på bussen. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Sorgen er kort. Gleden er evig. | Schiller |
| Sorgen greier seg selv, men for å få det fulle utbytte av gleden må du ha noen å dele den med. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Vi blir trette av de gleder vi får, ikke av de vi gir | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |