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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
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"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
