Happiness Quotes

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.

Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

When you dig another out of their troubles you find a place to bury your own.

Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14 600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

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.

Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

True happiness consists in making others happy.

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.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.

When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.

Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.

Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell 0 storms! Farewell.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

All happiness is in the mind.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.

I went back to being an amateur in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work routine sets in and that's the death of work and life.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say "Work a little harder Work a little longer Work!"

To make a man happy fill his hands with work.

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.

Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.

An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.