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
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
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
- Drew Barrymore
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
- Anonymous
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
- Marcus Aurelius
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