Quotations
Happiness
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
- Scriptures
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
- Robert Brault
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
- Karen Maezen Miller
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
- Aristotle
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
- Helen Keller
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
- John Lennon
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
- Paulo Coelho
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
- Khalil Gibran
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
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