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"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
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
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
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
