People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
Quotations
Happiness
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
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
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
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"
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"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
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
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
