Quotations
Happiness
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
- Madonna
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
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
- Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
- William J. Bennett
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
- Charles Dickens
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
- Marcel Pagnol
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
- Marianne Williamson
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
- Jenny O'connell
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