When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
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"
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
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
-Scriptures "Amanda Bradley"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
