The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
