"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." George Moore, (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.
"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance." Proverbs 15:13
"Celebrate what you want to see more of." Thomas J. "Tom" Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer on business management practices
"For a split second, he blanked, then came to. He steadied himself, thinking his heart could actually, though not probably, explode and he would be toast right here in front of everybody." Book character Dooley Kavanagh's thoughts while his marriage ceremony was beginning as described in Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." Mildred Barthel, free-lance writer and music director, writing in Ensign a magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
"Happiness is a journey . . . not a destination." Ben Sweetland, author
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin." John Lubbock
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.." Margaret Lee Runbeck - Margaret Lee Runbeck(1905-1956) was the author of 16 books, but her presence on the internet is one sentence at a time. Pages of her quotes come up on Google, but very little actual biographical information.
"Happiness is not having what one wants, but wanting what one has." Alvina Welgraven, Truhton, Minnesota
"Happiness is very demanding." Cynthia Kavanaugh, a character in Shepherds Abiding, a book in The Mitford Series, written by Jan Karon - Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford.
"I want to merry you." This quote with the typo 'merry' instead of 'marry' was in a book writen by the poet Denise Jolly. This quote was found in Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley's book How Poetry Can Change Your Heart. And really, shouldn't be WANT to merry people around us!
"If sustained by my fellow-citizens, I shall be grateful and happy; if not, I shall find in the motives which impel me ample grounds for contentment and peace." Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) 7th president of the US 1829–37; known as Old Hickory.
"If you want a happy life and good days, keep your tongue from speaking evil, and keep your lips from telling lies. Turn away from evil and do good. Work hard at living in peace with others." 1 Peter 3:10, 11
"I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up." (age 13)
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." Charles Spurgeon, 19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher.
"It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how . . . and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss." Henry Miller in The Colossus of Marousi - Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. (Shared by Katharine Harding)
"May happiness touch your life today as warmly as you have touched the lives of others." Rebecca Forsythe (Who is Rebecca Forsythe?)
"Oh, what a happy soul am I! Although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world Contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy That other people don't. To weep and sigh because I'm blind, I cannot - and I won't! Fanny Crosby, March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915) was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. A member of the Sixth Avenue Bible Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, she wrote many hymns together with her pastor, Robert Lowry. She was one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, with over 100 million copies printed, despite being blind from shortly after birth.
quot;Shazam!" Gomer Pyle, a television character played by Jim Nabors of The Andy Griffith Show.(Offered by Tom McDermott)
"She had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy, you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there is suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter. Something, you do not know what, has broken the seal upon that door in the depth of your being that opens upon eternity.“ Elizabeth Goudge - Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. This quote was found in A Common Life, a book in The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
"Some people cause happiness wherever they go, and some people cause happiness whenever they go." Oscar Wilde, (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet.
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings." Samuel Taylor Coleridge - This quote was found in the book Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good, a book in The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way" Douglas Clegg (born April 1, 1958) is an American horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing.
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo; (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.
"VITALITY of mind and Body;
The ACTIVITY to employ and maintain them;
The ZEST and CURIOSITY they can animate;
FREEDOM to travel widely in nature and art;
In countries of the world and of the mind;
HUMAN affections;
And the gift of GAIETY - these seem to me,
then, the main causes of HAPPINESS.
I am surprised to find how few and simple they are.
F.L. Lucas, (1894–1967) was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II. - "On Happiness" (Shared by wonderful friends Goody & Katharine with the added information that Katharine's father carried this poem with him at all times.)
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