Thought for Today

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

~~~~~ William Ellery Channing

Thought for Today

"Independence is happiness."

~~~~~ Susan B. Anthony

Thought for Today

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

~~~~~ Arthur Rubinstein

Thought for Today

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

~~~~~ Carl Jung

Thought for Today

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

~~~~~ Wilhelm von Humboldt

Thought for Today

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."

~~~~~ Soren Kierkegaard

Thought for Today

"Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with."

~~~~~ Charles Farrar Browne

Thought for Today

"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."

~~~~~ Victor Hugo

Thought for Today

"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."

~~~~~ Daniel Boone

Thought for Today

"Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money."

~~~~~ Morrie Ryskind

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"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."

~~~~~ Rufus Choate

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"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."

~~~~~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Thought for Today

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

~~~~~ John Mason Brown

Thought for Today

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

~~~~~ Wilhelm von Humboldt

Thought for Today

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

~~~~~ Daphne du Maurier

Thought for Today

"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."

~~~~~ Franz Schubert

Thought for Today

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

~~~~~ Francis Bacon

Thought for Today

"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."

~~~~~ William Lyon Phelps

Thought for Today

"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."

~~~~~ Daniel Boone

Thought for Today

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."

~~~~~ Kin Hubbard