Joy and Happiness III

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~ Buddha

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. ~ Publilius Syrus

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. ~ Anne Dillard

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. ~ Martha Washington

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves. ~ Caitlin Matthews

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. ~ Bertrand Russell

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ~ Bertrand Russell

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ~ George Santayana

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. ~ Sara Teasdale

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~ Agnes Repplier

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. ~ Jean Paul Richter

The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it. ~ Aeschylus

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. ~Francois duc la Rochefoucauld

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. ~ Emily Dickinson

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