Coffee Break - Happiness

“The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness.”

-- Dalai Lama

“Sometimes the seeds of happiness are sown in darkness.”

-- Unknown

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

-- Arthur H. Prince

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.”

-- Francoise de Motteville

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

-- Albert Schweitzer

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

-- Douglas Jerrould

“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”

-- John Lubbock

“Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has.”

-- F. H. Denison

“In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.”

-- R.H. Grenville

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

-- Kahlil Gibran

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.”

-- Victor Hugo

“I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.”

-- Abd Er-Rahman III of Spain (960 CE)