Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Happiness
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
