There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Quotations
Happiness
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
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
"The Book of Luke"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
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"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
