Quotations about Happiness

January 12, 2009

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 Dostoevsky


What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  ~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  ~James Openheim

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

“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne

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Quotations about Smiles

January 12, 2009


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.  ~William Shakespeare, Othello


A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.  ~Author Unknown

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.  ~Andy Rooney

If you smile at someone, they might smile back.  ~Author Unknown

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.  ~Author Unknown

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Quotations about Attitude

January 12, 2009

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.  ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues


I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.  ~Author Unknown

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I’d like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, “I Got the Sun in the Morning,” 1946

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.  ~Ancient Proverb

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Quotations about Success

January 12, 2009

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.  ~George Smith Patton


It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.  ~Author Unknown

How can they say my life is not a success?  Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?  ~Logan Smith

Success and failure.  We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not.  They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.  ~Laurence Shames

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.  ~B.C. Forbes

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