Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Quotations
Happiness
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
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"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
