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"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
