We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
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
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
