There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
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"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
