It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Happiness
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
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"
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
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"
