Quotes - Happiness
...it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. |
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~ BROTHER DAVID STEINDL-RAST Austrian-American Theologian and Author |
A happy marriage is a long converstion which always seems too short. |
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~ ANDRE MAUROIS |
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
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~ HERM ALBRIGHT |
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. |
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~ DOROTHY FIELDS American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters. |
Blessed are the happiness makers. |
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~ HENRY WARD BEECHER Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. |
Children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. |
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~ SARA TEASDALE American poet |
Find ecstasy in life--the mere sense of living is joy enough. |
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~ EMILY DICKINSON American poet |
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. |
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~ LUTHER BURBANK American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career |
Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun. |
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~ ROBERT TOWNSEND Director and Actor |
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. |
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~ WALT WHITMAN American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist |
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. |
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~ FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Thirty -second president of the United States |
Happiness walks on busy feet. |
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~ KITTI TURMELL |
heal the past, live the present dream the future. |
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~ MARY ENGELBREIT Mary Engelbreit is a graphic artist and children's book illustrator who launched her own magazine, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion in 1996. |
His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. |
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~ JOSEPH LELYVELD |
Hold out your hand to feel the luxury of the sunbeams. |
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~ HELEN KELLER American author, lecturer, political activist, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Her story is told dramatically in the play/movie THE MIRACLE WORKER. |
How beautiful it is to be alive! |
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~ HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON Politician |
I feel pretty, oh so pretty. It's alarming how charming I feel. |
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~ STEPHEN SONDHEIM American composer and lyricist for stage and screen. Winner of seven Tony Awards (more than any other composer). |
I look back on my life like a good day's work. It was done and I am satisfied with it. |
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~ GRANDMA MOSES American folk artist who lived 101 years |
I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it. |
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~ GRANDMA MOSES American folk artist who lived 101 years |
I want to hear jazz with my eyes closed and dig my toes into the sand dancing. |
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~ SABRINA WARD HARRISON Canadian artist and author |
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. |
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~ STAN DALE |
If all the griefs I am to have would only come today, I am so happy I believe they'd laugh and run away. |
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~ EMILY DICKINSON American poet |
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. |
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~ DOUG LARSON |
If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love. |
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~ MAYA ANGELOU Poet, playwright, memoirist, actress, author, television producer and important activist in the American Civil Rights Movement |
It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. |
It is not easy to find happiness within ourselves, but it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
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~ AGNES REPPLIER |
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. |
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~ SUSAN SONTONG American Essayist, Short Story Writer and Novelist |
Joy is not in things, it is in us. |
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~ UNKNOWN |
Joy is your birthright. |
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~ LESLIE SANTOS Author |
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. |
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~ HELEN KELLER American author, lecturer, political activist, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Her story is told dramatically in the play/movie THE MIRACLE WORKER. |
Laughter and fun free the mind from barriers and restrictions. |
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~ JOYCE WYCOFF Writer, Speaker, Author, Poet, Photographer |
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. |
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~ VICTOR BORGE |
Love really is the answer. We're here only to teach love. When we're doing that, our souls are singing and dancing. |
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~ GERALD JAMPOLSKY M.D. A child and adult psychiatrist, author known for LOVE IS LETTING GO OF FEAR |
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. |
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~ THE WONDER YEARS |
Not a day goes by that I don't say, "THANK YOU. I'm truly blessed." |
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~ OPRAH WINFREY American television presenter, media mogul and philanthropist. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television |
Nothing is worth more than this day. |
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~ GOETHE German poet, novelist, playwright, and philosopher |
Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. |
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~ B. W. PROCTOR English Poet |
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined. |
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~ LORD BYRON British poet and leading figure in Romaticism |
One of the secrets of a happy life is continusous small treats. |
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~ CHARLES BAUDELAIRE French poet, critic and translator |
Out of the dreariness Into the cheeriness Come we in weariness home. |
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~ STEPHEN CHALMERS |
Smiles are the soul's kisses. |
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~ MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM Writer |
That is happiness: To be dissolved into something complete and great. |
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~ WILLA CATHER |
The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of the earth. |
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~ THOMAS DE QUINCY English author and intellectual |
The poetry of the heart is never dead. |
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~ JOHN KEATS English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. |
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. |
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~ EDITH WHARTON Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer and designer. |
Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness of life. |
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~ CHARLENE COSTANZO Writer |
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. |
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~ LORD BYRON British poet and leading figure in Romaticism |
Very much within our reach, and meant for us to share, once-in-a-lifetime moments, encountered everywhere. |
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~ GRACE E. EASLY Poet |
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. |
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~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet |
What we remember from childhood we remember forever--permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. |
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~ CYNTHIA OZICK Author of short stories, plays and poetry |
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. |
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~ DR. JOYCE BROTHERS American psychologist and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. She is professionally known as Dr. Joyce Brothers. |
Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams in a jar? |
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~ BURK AND VAN HUESEN |
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. |
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~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet |
You've got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness. |
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~ PERCY ROSS Philanthropist |
Your being is full of remembered song! |
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~ BERNICE KENYON |