Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
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"
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
