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
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
