Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Quotations
Happiness
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
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
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
