We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Quotations
Happiness
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
