There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Quotations
Happiness
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
