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
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 a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
