All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”