They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Quotations
Happiness
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
