Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Quotations
Happiness
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
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
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
