Happiness Archives - JOHN F. GROOM

Beverly Sills

I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

He felt that he could forgive anything to anyone, because happiness was the greatest agent of purification.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.

One’s true happiness depends more upon one’s own judgment of one’s self, on a consciousness of rectitude in action and intention, and in the

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his

The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.