“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
Source: This Business of Living
Happiness Quotes
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Happiness Quotes
“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Source: The Lycian Shore
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake
“The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Source: The Hobbit
Source: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
Source: Mother Night: A Novel
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”