Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
Quotations
Happiness
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
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"
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
