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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
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"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
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
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
