Part 3: Quotes on happiness
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Below are 2 quotes which is a continuation of quotes on courage posted previously. Part 3 of quotes on happiness. See my previous post on happiness, part 1 and part 2
These quotes are from some of the greatest people in history.
Part 3: Quotes on happiness
1. I know well that happiness is in little things. John Ruskin
2. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde
3. Five great enemies to peace inhibit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Happiness is not the end of life; character is. Henry Ward Beecher
5. Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana
6. To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Charles Caleb Colton
7. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
8. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle
10. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
11. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
12. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
13. A consistent soul believe in destiny, a capricious one in chance. Baltasar Gracian
14. When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower. John Ruskin
15. Where thou art, that is home. Emily Dickinson
16. For each ecstatic instant we must an anguish pay in keen and quivering ratio to ecstasy. Emily Dickinson
17. Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
18. To be busy is man’s only happiness. Mark Twain
19. He is happiest, to be king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann von Goethe
20. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin
21. Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run , and for most men this comes chiefly through their work. Bertrand Russell
22. The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men. Charles Caleb Colton
23. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent source of joy and ecstasy. Anais Nin
24. knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana
25. All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Lord Byron
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