Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
