The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
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"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
