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.”
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
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
