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
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
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
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
There is no limit to joy. Happiness has no end. When you are standing in love of God, every cell in your body jumps for joy. You breathe in and out with the entire universe. In this state, your life is fulfilled.
-Sun Myung Moon "Sun Myung Moon"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
