The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
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
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
