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
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
