We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
