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"
Quotations
Happiness
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
