Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."

Pierre Corneille

"If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam.

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut, our home."

Nathaniel Cotton

"Happiness depends, as Nature shows,

Less on exterior things than most suppose."

William Cowper

"We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness."

Dalai Lama

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

Dalai Lama

"Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

Robert Davies

"To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness."

John Dewey

"Happiness is not given but exchanged."

Diane

"The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious."

Diane

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Benjamin Disraeli

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

"The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it."

Andrew Dunbar

"The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."

Timothy Dwight

"I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig."

Albert Einstein

"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."

George Eliot

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

Epicurus

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

Desiderius Erasmus

"Account no man happy till he dies."

Euripides

"Ten Spiritual Tonics

1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life.

2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul.

3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind.

4. Accept your limitations . . .

5. Don’t envy. It wastes time and energy.

6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition.

7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves.

8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views.

9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence.

10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want."

Abraham L. Feinberg

"It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world."

Ernest A. Fitzgerald

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

Gustave Flaubert

"How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise."

Malcolm S. Forbes

"There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Henry Ford

"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Henry Ford

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

Anatole France

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Benjamin Franklin

"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

Benjamin Franklin

"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

"What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . .

Happiness springs immediately from the mind."

Benjamin Franklin

"Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy."

Gustave Freytag

"Happiness is a man’s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside."

Erich Fromm

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Robert Lee Frost

"He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise"

Thomas Fuller

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy."

Thomas Fuller

"Happiness is a myth we seek,

If manifested surely irks;

Like river speeding to the plain,

On its arrival slows and murks.

For man is happy only in

His aspiration to the heights;

When he attains his goal, he cools

And longs for other distant flights."

Kahlil Gibran

"If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life."

Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.

"Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary."

Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.

"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nine keys to contentment

Health enough to make work a pleasure.

Wealth enough to support your needs.

Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.