Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Quotations
Happiness
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
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
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
