Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
