A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. – Bernard de Fontenelle
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.– Samuel Johnson
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. – Johann Pestalozzi
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.– Mark Twain
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.- Immanuel Kant
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness
from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud
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Gratitude – The Doorway to More Happiness and Joy! – A few days ago I wrote a post called Happiness is a Decision. I decided to be more intentional in feeling more happiness everyday. How to do that? Well, I could look for things during the course of the day to be happy about, right? …
Happiness. – But mere chirpiness – laughter and smiling and quick-wittedness and all the rest of it – isn’t really what I mean by happiness. I suppose I mean: I’ll never be content. Is it a coincidence that ‘content’ means both ‘satisfied or showing …
More Money Doesn’t Hurt Happiness – “Although a large body of research does show that people become happier as they move from being very poor to lower middle class, after this point the impact of income on happiness is much weaker. Think of someone who makes $100000 one …
Do Not Drill Your Boat – Boy assembling a book case Image via Wikipedia Have you ever had the experience where you have done so many good things to other people, and one day when you did something wrongly, all the good deeds you did in the past are completely …
Quote of the Day – The Way to Fly – “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.” Richard Bach in Jonathon Livingstone Seagull. …
5 Ways to Financial Happiness With Your Spouse – A little while ago I wrote this article, How To Achieve Blame-Free Household Budgeting, and I got a few comments and emails about it asking me to expand more on the concept of handling finances with your spouse. …
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