No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Quotations
Happiness
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
