Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Addison
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." Meister Eckhart
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good." Dr. Seuss
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Plato
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." Seneca
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Dickenson
"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
Anonymous
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." The 14th Dalai Lama
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy." Charlie McCarthy
"Punctuality is the thief of time." Oscar Wilde
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." Spanish proverb
"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." Zen saying
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." Will Durant
"The good and the wise lead quiet lives." Euripides
"Patience is the key to paradise." Turkish proverb
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable." Goethe
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too." Teresa of Avila
"Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything." Rumi
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Charles Caleb Colton
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller
it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. Don Marquis
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