21 August 2021

Week 2021-33: Happiness is...

"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy." (Gretta B Palmer)

"Happiness is a by-product of helping others." (Denny Miller)

"Happiness is a function of accepting what is." (Werner Erhard)

"Happiness is a habit – cultivate it." (Elbert Hubbard)

"Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized." (G K Chesterton)

"Happiness is a perfume you can't pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." (Ralph W Emerson)

"Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other." (Norman Bradburn)

"Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses." (Russell Baker)

"Happiness is a state of mind where pleasure and pain caused by attachment do not exist." (Baba Hari Das)

"Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror; it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared." (Jane Porter)

"Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it." (Mark Twain)

"Happiness is a way station between too little and too much." (Channing Pollock)

"Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." (Lev Tolstoy)

"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions." (Aristotle)

"Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning." (Ibn al-Qayyim)

"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided." (Alphonse Karr)

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." (William H Sheldon)

"Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept." (Ken Keyes, Jr.)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." (Ingrid Bergman)

"Happiness is having a sense of self, not a feeling of being perfect, but of being good enough and knowing that you are in the process of growth, of being, of achieving levels of joy. It’s a wonderful contentment and acceptance of who and what you are and a knowledge that the world and life are full of wondrous adventures and possibilities." (Leo Buscaglia)

"Happiness is having the freedom to be yourself." (Hilary Swank)

"Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude." (Joseph Wood Krutch)

"Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap." (William Bennett)

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." (Bernard Meltzer)

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it." (Alexandre Dumas)

"Happiness is like time and space - we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons." (George du Marier)

"Happiness is lived in the pursuit of it, not the achievement thereof" (Thomas Jefferson)

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled." (Dr. Benjamin Spock)

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are." (Palmer Sondreal)

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it." (Chinese proverb)

"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind." (Alice Meynell)

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." (Thomas Merton)

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." (Margaret L Runback)

"Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind." (Thomas Jefferson)

"Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind." (Thomas Jefferson)

"Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." (John B Sheerin)

"Happiness is not perfected until it is shared." (Jane Porter)

"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." (Norman MacEwan)

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." (Dalai Lama)

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." (Jim Rohn)

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." (Anon)

"Happiness is not the end of life; character is." (Henry W Beecher)

"Happiness is pleasure without regret" (Lev Tolstoy)

"Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap." Stephen Richards, "Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free")

"Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else." (Aldous Huxley)

"Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being." (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." (Ayn Rand)

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." (Zhuangzi)

"Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world [...] when we buy it for someone else." (Paul Flemming)

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." (Aristotle)

"Happiness is the natural flower of duty." (Phillips Brooks)

"Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action." (Robin S. Sharma)

"Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." (George Santayana)

"Happiness is the overcoming of not Difficulties exist to be surmounted, unknown obstacles toward a known" (Ralph W Emerson)

"Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal." (L Ron Hubbard)

"Happiness is the space between unhappiness." (Don Marquis)

"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late." (Robert R Updegraff)

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." (Sri Ramana Maharashi)

"Happiness isn’t about what happens to us - it’s about how we perceive what happens to us. It’s the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge." (Lynn Peters)

"I know well that happiness is in little things." (John Ruskin)

"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances, it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." (Bertrand Russell)

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it." (Democritus)

"In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else." (Giacomo Leopardi)

"Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." (Victor Hugo)

"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." (Chuang-Tse)

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." (Hosea Ballou)

"What we call happiness is what we do not know." (Anatole France)

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