Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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 wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
