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
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
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
"Nineteen Minutes"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
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 "Chuang Tzu 21"
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
