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
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
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
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
