When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
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"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
