Happiness

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.
- Swedish proverb

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
- Samuel Butler

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
- Greg Anderson

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
- Stephen Covey

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.
- Barbara Sher

It's a miracle what a smile can do when someone aims one directly at you!
- Mary Ellen Edmunds

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
- Dick Gregory

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
- unknown

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- David M. Burns

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Reviewed: 01/2007