The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Happiness
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
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"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
