Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Quotations
Happiness
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
