Saturday, November 3, 2007

Happiness



I believe happiness which is derived from external circumstances will always be elusive and fleeting. True happiness must come from within, and must be regardless of external circumstances in order for it to be lasting and of any significance.

Below are a few quotes I've found regarding Happiness, Contentment, Joy, etc. Some are serious; some are humorous. All of them will make you think. Enjoy. :-)

-HWHL


Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

-Chinese Proverb


There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

-Jean Paul Richter


Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

-Mark Twain


When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it it useless to seek it elsewhere.

-La Rochefoucauld


The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.

-Anonymous


In the depth of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible Summer.

-Albert Camus


The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

-John Berry


That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

-Willa Cather


Joy is not in things; it is in us.

-Richard Wagner

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