Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
