Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
