A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Happiness
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 are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
