The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
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"
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
