Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Quotations
Happiness
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
