There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Quotations
Happiness
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
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"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
