Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
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
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
