Happiness and Joy
J.R.R. Tolkien
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Nota nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down onor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one’s self: “The work is done.” But just as one says that, the answer comes: “The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.” The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Fiódor Dostoiévski
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The joy of life is to put out one’s power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
J.M. Barrie
It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
Stephen Hawking
You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Kim Hubbard
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
J.M. Barrie
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
Emily Jane Brontë
Sleep not, dream not; this bright day Will not, cannot last for aye; Bliss like thine is bought by years Dark with torment and with tears.