HAPPINESS
That famous definition of health by the World Health Organisation as a 'state of complete physical, mental and social well being' bypasses the unalterable reality of most of our lives, so the quest for such a perfect ideal of health could be seen as a form of madness.
'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead....' Scottish proverb
'The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up' .........Mark Twain
'Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say are in harmony'.......Mahatma Ghandi
'To be busy is man's only happiness'.........Mark Twain
There is no happines except in the realisation that we have accomplished something' .....Henry Ford
'There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will' Epictetus
'The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play' .......Arnold Toynbee
'Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die: so let us all be thankful' .....Buddha
'It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness' ...Thomas Jefferson
'He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.' ...Goethe
'Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is' ...Maxim Gorky
' The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance: the wise grows it under his feet'......James Openheim
'Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy' .....Benjamin Franklin
'Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory' .......Albert Schweitzer
'A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rathera person with a certain set of attitudes' ...Hugh Downs
'Action may not always bring happiness: but there is no happiness without action' ....Benjamin Disraeli
'The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for' ...Allan K Chalmers
'Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open' ...John Barrymore
'The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not' .....Ludwig Wittgenstein
'The single greatest hurdle for health and happiness is to worry'