Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
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If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
