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1001 Recipe to Happiness
Announcement:
20 March is International Happiness Day, which is, of course, a cause for celebration. 🙂
Happiness is a choice, let’s choose happiness today, at lease. Hope everyone ARE ECLIPSED WITH HAPPINESS! BE MERRY, BE JOYFUL!
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20 March is apparently United Nations’ International Day of Happiness!
GlobalGranary is pasting in its front page for today the 1001 Recipe to Happiness.
Wishing you all a Happiness day and may it continue indefinitely.
Cheers!!!
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Most of us only really wanted to be happy in this life. Happiness has and continue to be the subject of debates, philosophical discourse, metaphysics and everything else. We have also dug into the Bible to see what happiness is? Happiness can be elusive, especially to some people because they refuse to stand still and just wait for it to come around. Or they look for happiness in the wrong places.
So before the year-end GlobalGranary.Org will compile a mini scrapbooks/recipe/quote to Happiness. Please do try to add your own take to our list.
Thank you.
All that is in heaven is also on earth.
– Plotinus
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
~Bernard de Fontenelle
Daily I seek happiness more and more within my mind, and less and less through material pleasures.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
~Thomas Carlyle
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
– Werner Erhard (American Critical Thinker)
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
~ Palmer SondrealThis one makes a lot of sense. If you have to ask yourself whether you are happy or not, then you are not happy. Happiness is intrinsic, all engulfing. You just know!
Jean XXXX
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and getteth understanding.
– Proverbs 3:13
“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”
– Drew Barrymore
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
~John BarrymoreThis is the happiness that really last. Those that you don’t go looking for!
JeanXXXX
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is always a by-product. 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.
~Robertson DaviesThis is really so interesting. Basically it says that there are people who are naturally miserable, and they can’t help it. Happiness is not something that is natural, there is absolutely no point being moaney and be down in the dumps if you can’t find happiness. You just have to continue looking for happiness. It might be right there before your eyes but you just don’t see it. Be vigilant!
JeanXXX
… happiness is not born from what we receive, but from what we give.
– Taisen Deshimnaru
Happiness is lighter than a feather, no one can grasp it. Suffering is heavier tha the earth, no one can let it go.
– ChuangTzu
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
– Mathatma Gandhi
Interesting concept.
Happiness and virtue react upon each other,—the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
- Lytton.
Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
– Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
~Thomas Szasz
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway
Now I know why I am so miserable all the time.
Jean 😉
Anyway, Hemingway may have a point; Albert Einstein has this much to say about happiness:
“To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
– Einstein”
Happiness is a form of courage.
~Holbrook Jackson
He who is good is happy.
— Habbington
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.
– Edith Wharton
If you want to be happy, be.
~Leo TolstoyI love this quote by Leo Tolstoy. It is simple and straight-forward. Being happy is a matter of choice, simple. It is alright to give ourselves permission to be happy.
JeanXXX
If you are not ready to exchange your own happiness for the suffering of others, you will never know happiness, in any life.
– Shantideva
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein
True!
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
~Sigmund Freud
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 DostoevskyThis is really why happiness is elusive. We have it in loads but we ignore it. We are forever clamouring for the ethereal kind of happiness, when the simple form which is the real thing, we tend to take for granted.
– Jean XXXX
My idea of happiness is buying a piece of land large enough where I can shoot my .22 and not hit my neighbour’s dog.
– John SteinbeckI like this idea of happiness by Steinbeck, minus of course the .22 and shooting dogs. I like his idea of having enough space that you can do your own thing without constantly worrying that you might be disturbing others in your vicinity. I want to be the queen of my castle and of my land.
– Jean XXXX
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
– Ingrid Bergman
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DEPEND not on another, rather lean
Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions:
Subjection to another’s will gives pain;
True happiness consists in self-reliance.
– Manu.
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
~Cynthia Nelms
True, and misery gives you wrinkle. You might as well smile and be happy as people respond more to cheerful people.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice: nor would I have
Them popular:
Let them be good that love me, though but few.– Ben Jonson.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
~Mark Twain
I do believe this is true. It is lovely to be able to cheer someone out. It gives you a nice feeling knowing that even for a fleeting moment you were able to make someone jolly. – Jean XXX
To fill the hour – that is happiness.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~Norm Papernick
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
~Author Unknown
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand
There is an enormous happiness to be found in not wanting to be the best, or have the most, or shout the loudest.
– Colin Clark
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
~James Openheim
This is so true. We foolishly look for happiness from afar and yet with a bit of tender, love and care we can have it home-grown!
Jean
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~Lady Blessington
I agree with this one. When you’re happy, you exude a certain glow that is so eye-catching. You bloom like a flower and purr like a contented cat.
– JeanXXX
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~George Bernard Shaw
This is so right. In order to escape misery, you have to keep busy. Otherwise, you’ll wallow in self-pity.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
~Doug Larson
Again true. There are people who are
The degree of happiness you possess depends on the degree of freedom in your heart.
– ~Thich Nhat Hanh
The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.—Paley
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
~Walter Savage Landor
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
– Niccolo Machiaveli
As Long as My Lady is Happy I am Happy as we are one HAPPY & LOVE 🙂
There is a quote about making someone happy. Just wait for it. I am at work you know. LOL
But thanks, I want you to be happy as much as I am happy!