If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
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"
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"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
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.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"