For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
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"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
