Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
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"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
