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Happiness

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. – Rob Thomas, “3A.M.”

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. – Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. – Charles L. Morgan

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. – Niccolo Machiavelli

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. – Author Unknown

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. – Ernest Dimnet

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverb

Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy! – Terri Guillemets

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. – George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. – Eugene O’Neill

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. – Mother Teresa

Misery is almost always the result of thinking. – Joseph Joubert

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. – Thornton Wilder

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette

Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com