The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
