Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Quotations
Happiness
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.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
