Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
- Haruki Murakami
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Ramana Maharshi
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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- J. M. Barrie
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
- Steve Maraboli
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
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