I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Quotations
Happiness
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
