He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Quotations
Happiness
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
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 people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
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"
