The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
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.
- The Buddha
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
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
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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