Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
