The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
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
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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 never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
