We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Quotations
Happiness
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
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
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
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 is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
