The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Happiness
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
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
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
