The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Happiness
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
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.
