The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
