No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Quotations
Happiness
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
