Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Quotations
Happiness
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
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
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
