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Happiness

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. – Terri Guillemets

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. – Author Unknown

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. – Lavetta Sue Wegman

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. – Jean Ingelow

With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. – Attributed to Henry S. Haskins

Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. – Norman Bradburn

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. – Proverb

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

[T]he true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life… – William Morris, “The Aims of Art,” 1887

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

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