There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
