The eXchanger - The eXchangers' Thread - Quotes to Ponder

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits
of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as
though t'were his own.

~ Johann von Goethe

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.
~ La
Rouchefouchauld

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of
what it means to be happy or content. ~ Confucius

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done,
the zest of creating things new
. ~ Antoine de
Saint-Exupery

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it
while you are getting it is happiness. ~ Bertha Damon

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
~ Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness is that state of consciousness which
proceeds from teh achievement of one's values

. ~ Ayn
Rand

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their
minds to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln

( i wonder if he had a speech writer ) LOL

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose
gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order
to conquer it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and
does it well. ~ E. Merrill Root

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
~ Albert Camus

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy
what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives
instead of enlarging it. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to
do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~
Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness, to some elation, is to others, mere
stagnation. ~ Amy Lowell

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary
is to refrain from comparing this moment with other
moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy
because I was comparing them with other moments of the
future.

~ André Gide

When I was a small child. I thought that success
spelled happiness. I was wrong. Happiness is like a
butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief
moment, but soon flits away.

~ Anna Pavlova

We all live with the objective of being happy; our
lives are all different and yet the same. ~ Anne Frank

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

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor
memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it. ~
George Sand

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an
object. ~ Hermann Hesse

"Happiness is not a string of miscellaneous adventures
or experiences but an attitude. We either make
ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy and
strong. The amount of work is the same."

~ Francesca
Reigler

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and
what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen. ~
Alfred Hitchcock