The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Happiness
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
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"
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
