I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Quotations
Happiness
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
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"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
