The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
