The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Happiness
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
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 is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
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"
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"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
