There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
