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.
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"
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"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
