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
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
