To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Quotations
Happiness
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
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"
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
