Quotations
Happiness
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey
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
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
- Zaroaster
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Ramana Maharshi
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
- Sathya Sai Baba
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
- Marilyn Manson
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