For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
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
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
