![]() Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower. “Happiness is the natural flower of duty.” – Phillips Brooks Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? Leslie Caron Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ![]() Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ![]() The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ![]() A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” – Patrick RothfussĢ3: “The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” – AnonymousĢ4: “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.“Happiness is an inside job.” – William Arthur Ward Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. 20: “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo CoelhoĢ1: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David ThoreauĢ2: “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. ![]()
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