He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Quotations
Happiness
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
There is no end to craving. Hence, contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Stay content.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
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"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
