Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Quotations
Happiness
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
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
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-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
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
