When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often
we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the
one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the
little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind
look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful
raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of
pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men spend their lives in
anticipations,—in determining to be
vastly happy at some period when
they have time. But the present time
has one advantage over every
other—it is our own. Past
opportunities are gone, future have
not come. We may lay in a stock of
pleasures, as we would lay in a
stock of wine; but if we defer the
tasting of them too long, we shall
find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb
Colton
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of
others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere
his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The chances are that you have already come to believe that
happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And
they have attained it by realising that happiness does not
spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure,
but from the development of reason and the adjustment of
conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by
Arnold Bennett
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off
being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from
this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all
traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going
by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
