There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn
