“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
~ Immanuel Kant
Tag: happiness
“we’re all golden sunflowers inside.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
Money Is Numbers
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
- Bob Marley
The Key To Life
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
~ John Lennon
Born 81 years ago … October 9, 1940
Essentials To Happiness
Joseph Addison, Essayist, Born: May 1, 1672 – Died: June 17, 1719
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. ~Jack Kerouac
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher, Born: April 22, 1724 – Died: February 12, 1804
The Charming Gardeners
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~ Marcel Proust
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” ~ J. D. Salinger
He is happiest, be it king or peasant, who finds peace in is home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. ~ John Lubbock
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~Abraham Lincoln
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ~Jane Austen
Rose Bushes
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker
Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
William Blake Poem
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
~ William Blake ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (c. 1803)
Benign Indifference To The Universe ~ Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference to the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still.
~ Albert Camus
Rules For Happiness ~ Immanuel Kant
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
~ Immanuel Kant, Philosopher – B: April 22, 1724 – D: February 12, 1804
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~ Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher – B. April 22, 1724 – D. February 12, 1804
The Secret To Happiness ~ Bertrand Russell
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
~ Bertrand Russell
Aeschylus Quote: Happiness
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-Aeschylus 525 BC – 456 BC
Ancient Greek Dramatist
Quote: Chaim Potok – Tea And Happiness
The Four Conditions of Happiness ~ Albert Camus
“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation” ~Albert Camus
Look Well To This Day
Life Is Like A Piano…
Happiness ~ Albert Einstein
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote On Happiness
When asked how they managed to stay together for 65 years, the woman replied, We were born in a time where if something was broke, you fixed it – not throw it away
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness
Happiness – Leo Tolstoy
Source: http://wordables.com
Chinese Proverb
“No road to happiness or sorrow… Find them in yourself.”
– Chinese Proverb
Albert Camus On Happiness
Credit: http://wordables.com
Happiness – Mohandas Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
A Quote From One Of My Favorite Blues Singer And Guitarist
I’ve never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that’s why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile.
– Buddy Guy
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
Happiness is the morning’s first cup of coffee.
-Don @ A Pondering Mind
Tuesday Morning Quote
Zen Saying
“Happiness is a simple thing: you are happy when you are not trying to be happy. ”
– Zen saying
Tuesday Afternoon Quote
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
– Victor Hugo
Sunday Afternoon Quote
Key To Happiness
Anonymous
Kindness
Quote
Seek not happiness
too greedily, and be
not fearful of
unhappiness.
-Lao Tzu
Happiness ~ George Orwell
Happiness
The secret of happiness, you
see, is not found in seeking
more, but in developing the
capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
Quote
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. “
–Marcus Aurelius
Freedom
Letting go gives us freedom,
and freedom is the only
condition for happiness. If, in
our heart, we still cling to
anything – anger, anxiety, or
possessions – we cannot be free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
July 6, 1935
Whoever is happy ….
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank
Happiness
Happiness and freedom… – Epictetus
Independence – Susan B. Anthony
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering,… – Woody Allen
“Happiness mainly comes from…” ~ Dalai Lama
Wonderful Black & White Photos
Some wonderful black & white photos that I found on the net, some of children and adults.
Seen on: Daily Picdump / unknown photographers
Happiness Made Simple
Happiness Is Having A Large… George Burns
People Are Here For The Sake… – Albert Einstein
People are here for the sake of other people–for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.
-Albert Einstein
I Believe All Suffering is Caused by Ignorance – Dalai Lama
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Happiness… – Aristotle
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Thousands of Candles Be Lighted… – Gautama Buddha
Inspirational Quote #4 11/30/12
If They Were in the World Today… – Bertrand Russell
Inspirational Quote 10/8/12
A Pondering Mind 
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