Moment Of bliss by Fyodor Dostoevsky

May you be for ever blessed
for that moment of bliss and happiness
which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart.

Isn't such a moment sufficient
for the whole of one's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky

My creed is this by Robert Green Ingersoll

I have a creed myself; and my creed is this.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to
make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is
long enough for this life, strong enough for this world.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is a journey, not a destination by Alfred D. Souza

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten
through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served,
a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember
that time waits for no one.
Alfred D. Souza

True Joy by John Donn

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven,
it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should
be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world
is safe to place it in.
John Donn

JOY by Jean Paul

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew,
and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul

It is not the end of joy that makes
us so sad, but the end of hope.
Jean Paul

Do you wish the world were happy? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
as you pass along the way:
For the pleasures of many
May be oft times traced to one,
As the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Talk Happiness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox/Inspirational Happiness Quotes

Talk happiness.
The world is sad enough Without your woe.
No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting ;
We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Seeking for happiness we must take heed
Of simple joys that are not found in speed.

Seeking for happiness we needs must care
For all the little things that make life fair.

Seeking for happiness we must prize this---
Not what will be, or was, but that which is.

Seeking for happiness we find the way
Doing the things we ought to do each day.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Strew gladness

Strew gladness on the paths of men-
You will not pass this way again.
Sam Walter Foss

Love OF Life by Friedrich Nietzsche

And to my thinking as a lover of life, butterflies, soap-bubbles,
and whatever is of their kind among men, know most of happiness.
To see these light, foolish, delicate, mobile little souls flitting
about—that moveth Zarathustra to tears and to song.
Friedrich Nietzsche" Thus Spake Zarathustra"

INSPIRATIONAL HAPPINESS QUOTES

I shall take the heart.For brains do not make one happy,
and happiness is the best thing in the world.
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands,
but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story
of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had
a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Winston Churchill

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above
hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several
times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Sad soul, take comfort by Celia Thaxter

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed us yet.
Celia Thaxter

O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place!
O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face!
O well-remembered, rainy wind, blow all my care away,
That I may be a child again this blissful morn of May.
Celia Thaxter

FROM the documentary "HAPPY"

Being Happy by Ann Brashares

Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect.
Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Ann Brashares

Use your smile to change the world

Laugh
Because that is the purest
Sound.
Hafiz

Use your smile to change the world;
don't let the world change your smile.

Because happiness is contagious by Paulo Coelho

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes
sparkle with happiness.Because happiness is contagious and will always
manage to find a solution.
Paulo Coelho

Be cheerful by Arthur Helps

Be cheerful
Arthur Helps

Be cheerful, no matter what reverse obstruct your pathway,
or what plagues follow you in your trail to annoy you.
Ask yourself what is to be gained by looking or feeling sad
when troubles throng around you, or how your condition is to
be alleviated by abandoning yourself to despondency.

If you are a young man, nature designed you to “be of good cheer;”
and should you find your road to fortune, fame, or respectability,
or any other boon to which your young heart aspires, a little thorny,
consider it all for the best, and that these impediments are only
thrown in your way to induce greater efforts and more patient endurance
on your part. Far better spend a whole life in diligent, aye, cheerful
and unremitting toil, though you never attain the pinnacle of your
ambitious desires, than to turn back at the first appearance of misfortune,
and allow despair to unnerve your energies, or sour your naturally sweet and cheerful disposition.

If you are of the softer, fairer portion of humanity, be cheerful;
though we know full well that most affections are sweet to you when
compared with disappointment and neglect, yet let hope banish despair
and ill forebodings. Be cheerful: do not brood over fond hopes
unrealized, until a chain, link after link, is fastened on each
thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be
the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not
the travelling monument of despair and melancholy.

Happiness is to feel one’s soul good by Joseph Joubert

Happiness is to feel one’s soul good; there is really no other, and one may have this happiness even in sorrow: hence there are some griefs that are preferable to any joy, and that would be preferred by all who have felt them.
Joseph Joubert

On Joy & Sorrow. Excerpt from Songs of Innocence and of experience by William blake

It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.

Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
William Blake

How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?”
William Blake

Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow's share?
Can a father see his child
Weep, nor be with sorrow filled?

Can a mother sit and hear
An infant groan, an infant fear?
No, no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!
William Blake

Inspirational Quotes on Cheerfulness & joy

there is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Voltaire

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
Leo Tolstoy

Counting The troubles & Joys by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky