Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Quotations
Happiness
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
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
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
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"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
