Saturday, January 10, 2004

"How to be Happy" Quotes

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
----(By Mother Teresa 1910-1997) Founder, Missionaries of Charity

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit
----By Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) America novelist

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him"
----By Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) Russian Writer

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 which has been opened for us.
----By Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer and lecturer

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
----By Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
--Chinese Proverb

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet.

He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.--By William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet