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happiness

  • To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  • There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
    --- Epictetus

  • To be able to find joy in another’s joy; that is the secret of happiness.
    --- Geroges Bernanos

  • Happiness is in the comfortable companionship of friends.
    --- Pam Brown

  • Happiness is rarely a reward. More often a totally unexpected gift
    --- Pam Brown

  • Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
    --- John Barrymore

  • If you want to be happy, be.
    Leo Tolstoy

  • To fill the hour - that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
    --- Nataniel Hawthorne

  • Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person’s own breast. Trust thyself.
    --- Aristotle

  • Adam fell that man might be; and man are, that they might have joy.
    2 Ne 2:25

  • Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  • The longer I live the more I am convinced that the one thing worth living and dying for is the privilege of making someone more happy and more useful. No man who ever does anyting to lift his fellows ever makes a sacrifice.
    --- Booker T. Washington

  • To find a real happiness, we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen. Service to others akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
    --- Thomas S Monson
    Ensign, May 1990, p.93

  • There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.

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happiness

  • There's something in a simple hug
    That always warms the heart;
    It welcomes us back home
    And makes it easier to part.

    A hug's a way to share the joy
    And sad times we go through,
    Or just a way for friends to say
    They like you 'cause you're you.

    Hugs are meant for anyone
    For whom we really care,
    From your grandma to your neighbor,

    Or a cuddly teddy bear.
    A hug is an amazing thing -
    It's just the perfect way
    To show the love we're feeling
    But can't find the words to say.
    It's funny how a little hug
    Makes everyone feel good;
    In every place and language,
    It's always understood.
    And hugs don't need new equipment,
    Special batteries or parts -
    Just open up your arms
    And open up your hearts.

  • Hugging Is...
    Hugging is healthy. It helps the immune system, cures
    depression, reduces stress and induces sleep. It’s
    invigorating, rejuvenating and has no unpleasant side
    effects. Hugging is nothing less than a miracle drug.
    Hugging is all natural. It is organic, naturally sweet,
    no artificial ingredients, non-polluting, environmentally
    friendly and 100 percent wholesome.
    Hugging is the ideal gift. Great for any occasion, fun
    to give and receive, shows you care, comes with its own
    wrapping and, of course, fully returnable.
    Hugging is practically perfect. No batteries to wear
    out, inflation-proof, non-fattening, no monthly payments,
    theft-proof and nontaxable.
    Hugging is an underutilized resource with magical
    powers. When we open our hearts and arms we encourage others
    to do the same.
    Think of the people in your life. Are there any words
    you’d like to say? Are there any hugs you want to share? Are
    you waiting and hoping someone else will ask first? Please
    don’t wait! Initiate!

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joy

  • Real joy comes from the enjoyment of beauty.
    --- William Ross

  • Love and joy are twins, or born of each other.
    --- William Hazlitt

  • Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
    --- Mark Twain

  • There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy
    --- Joyce Grenfell

  • All who joy would win must share it - happiness was born a twin.
    Lord Bryon

  • Joy is not in things; it is in us.
    --- Richard Wagner

  • He who bends himself a joy
    Doth the winged life destroy;
    But he who kisses a joy as it flies
    Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
    --- Willaim Blake

  • To be able to find joy in another’s joy; that is the secret of happiness.
    --- Geroges Bernanos

  • Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seeds all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.

  • Joy, temperance, and repose
    Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  • Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  • To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  • If you want to be happy,
    Begin where you are,
    Don't wait for some rapture
    That's future and far.
    Begin to be joyous, begin to be glad
    And soon you'll forget
    That you ever were sad.

  • The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

  • How many smiles from day to day
    I've missed along my narrow way!
    How many kindly words I've lost
    What joy has my indifference cost!
    This glorious friend that now I know
    Would have been friendly years ago.

  • To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

  • Joy is not in things, it is in us.

  • Happiness is a thing to be practiced like a violin.

  • Happiness is the only thing we can give without having.

  • There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

  • The way to be happy is to make others happy.

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smile

  • A Smile is Cheer to you and me
    The cost is nothing - it's given free
    It comforts the wary - gladdens the sad
    Consoles those in trouble - good or bad
    To rich and poor - beggar or thief
    It's free to all of any belief
    A natural gesture of young and old
    Cheers on the faint - disarms the bold
    Unlike most blessings for which we pray
    It's one thing we keep when we give it away.

  • The smile on your face is the light in the window that tells people that you are at home.

  • All people smile the same language.

  • It is easy to be pleasant
    When life flows by like a song,
    But the man worth while is one who will smile,
    When everything goes dead wrong.

    For the test of the heart is trouble,
    And it always comes with the years,
    And the smile that is worth the praises of earth
    Is the smile that shines thru the tears.

  • Smile

  • If you meet someone who can’t smile, then give him of yours.

  • It’s easy to hibernate when we have a problem. The secret is to “Grin and Bear It”, in other words, find a happy solution.

  • They might not need me; but they might.
    I'll let my head be just in sight;
    A smile as small as mine might be
    Precisely their necessity.
    - Emily Dickinson

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last updated: June 4