[스크랩] [綠野]what is happiness ?

    what is happiness ?

 

 

 

 

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

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
Victor Hugo
 

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
Confucious
 

 "Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."
 Unknown
 

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
 

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see
the one which has opened for us."
Helen Keller
 

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being
happy."
Robert Anthony
 

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

"Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli
 

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hills
 

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be
happy."
Cynthia Nelms
 

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb
 

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
Anne Sexton
 

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
Marcus Aurelius
 

"Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore
 

"What is given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?"
Catullus
 

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost
 

"Often the greatest enemy of present happiness is past happiness too
well remembered."
Oscar Hammling
 

"A joy that's shared is a joy made double."
 John Ray
 

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

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more
things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they
will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be
who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what
you want."
Margaret Young
 

"It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost
happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting."
Maria Luisa-Bombal
 

"Fate often puts all the material of happiness into a man's hands just to see how
miserable he can make himself with them."
Don Marquis
 

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
John Mason Brown
 
 
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
Mildred Barthel.

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
William Bennett
 

"What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
Richard Owen Cambridge.

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."
Chinese proverb
 

"The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."
The Bible: Ecclesiasticus. XXX. 22

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
Douglas Jerrold.
 

 "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller
 

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
 La Rochefoucauld.
 

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
Karl Marx
 

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
Bernard Meltzer
 

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."
Dan Millman
 

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
John Stuart Mill.
 

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
Doris Mortman

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."
Gretta Brooker Palmer.
 

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Agnes Repplier.
 

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be  happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
Bertrand Russell
 

"No joy can equal the joy of serving others."
Sai Baba
 

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer
 

"I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice).
 

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
Dodie Smith

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain.

"If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
Monesquieu
 
 

"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
Publilius Syrus
 

"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
Bertrand Russell
 

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
Bertrand Russell
 

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
George Santayana
 

"The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
Martha Washington
 

"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 depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle
 

"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

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
Henry James
 

"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
Goethe
 

"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
 

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
Jacques Prevert
 

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
 Marcel Proust

"Happiness walks on busy feet."
Kittie Turmell

"Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory."
Albert Schweitze
 

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be wide as possible,
and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as
far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Bertrand Russell
 

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which
give happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
 

"Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who secure within can say:
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." 
Horace
 

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly,
one-directionally, without regret or reservation."
William H. Sheldon
 

"The more refined one is, the more unhappy."
Anton Chekhov
 

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
 

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
George Burns
 

"To fill the hour—that is happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

    

  

 

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