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"
Quotations
Happiness
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
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
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
