Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Happiness
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
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"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
