“Everybody finds happiness in his own way. Happily, I can think of you.” – Paul Gauguin
“Money doesn’t buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Ferrari.” – Unknown
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’m so fucking happy, I could shit rainbows.”
- “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson
- “Remember to light the candle of joy daily and all the gloom will disappear from your life.” – Djwhal Khul
- “You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” – Buffy Sainte-Marie
- “Joy is untouched by circumstance.” – Unknown
- “In thy presence is fullness of joy.” – Psalms 16:11
- “Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.” – Abbot Coumba Marmion
- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Guatama Buddha
- “What I know for sure is that you feel real JOY in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.” – Oprah
- “Joy springs from within; no one makes you joyous; you choose joyfulness.” – Unknown
- “Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” – Acts 2:28
- “True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” – Paul Pearsall
- “Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” – Phil Jackson
- “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” – Oprah
- “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.” – Sathya Sai Baba
- “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
- “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner
- “Joy is the highest expression of love.” – Abraham-Hicks
- “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa
- “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb
- “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson
- “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
- “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase
- “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens
- “Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.” – W.J. Cameron
- “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis
- “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!” – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836
- “There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.” – W.J. Cameron
- “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.” – Walter Scott
- “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” – Unknown
- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
- “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas
- “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving
- “Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” – Kate L. Bosher
- “Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” – Francis C. Farley
- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis
- “For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.” – W.J. Ronald Tucker
- “Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.” – Carrie Latet
- “Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” – Richard Lamm
- “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
- “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Unknown
- “Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…” – Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976
- “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” – Katharine Whitehorn
- “In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!’” – Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”
- “Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
- “I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: «Why, this is Christmas Day!» ” – David Grayson
- “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.” – Eva Logue
- “By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ” – Voltaire
- “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
- “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” – Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
- “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.” – Mother Teresa
- “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler
- “Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others.” – Harriet Shepard
- “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” – Mother Teresa
- “I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!” – William Blake
- “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
- “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” – Aristotle
- “Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus
- “People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.” – George Matthew Allen
- “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” – Aldous Huxley
- “There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” – David Burns, Intimate Connections
- “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
- “Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” – Alice Meynell
- “Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.” – Epictetus
- “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
- “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.” – John Stuart Mills
- “You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.” – William Ellery Channing
- “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Ghandi
- “The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” –
Douglas Jerrold
- “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” – J. Petit Senn
- “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
- “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
- “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
- “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” – George Santayana
- “No man is happy who does not think himself so.” – Publilius Syrus
- “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