Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Quotations
Happiness
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
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"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
