You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Quotations
Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
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
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
