We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
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
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
