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"
Quotations
Happiness
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
