Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
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If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our bliss must flow,
And that dear hut,--our home.

'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was read more

'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was bent, and his gait was slow,
His long thin hair was white as snow,
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.
And he sang every night as he went to bed,
"Let us be happy down here below:
The living should live, though the dead be dead."
Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved read more

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know read more

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it read more

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.