Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
